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By ALEX BEYERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

No matter the weather, hundreds of bikers can always be found pedaling their way through campus. But with a lot of bikes, comes a lot of bike theft.

In 2012, 192 bikes were reported stolen to the CSU Police Department. Most bikes get stolen near Westfall, Durward and Corbett Halls, which collectively reported 46 bike thefts in 2012. The sec-ond most popular area is the south side dorms, including Ingersoll, Summit, Academic Village, Edwards, Newsom and Braiden, which reported 34 thefts all together.

“There is less traffi c on that side of campus compared to places like the Academic Vil-lage where you have people all over,” said CSUPD Lt. Scott Harris. “And most thieves are not only looking for an easy opportunity but also looking for a quick way to get away

with what they got.”One of those reports came

from junior biology major Quinn Watt, whose bike was stolen last summer.

“I did go to CSU police, and my bike was registered, so they got all the information for my bike in their records,” Watt said. “They said they would relay it to Fort Collins police also to spread the word. I actually got a call once think-ing they found it, but I wasn't that lucky.”

With so many instances like this, the CSUPD has taken sev-eral measures in order to protect students from bicycle klepto-mania. Harris said that some of those measures include educat-ing students on how to properly secure their bikes when they register their bikes, as well as warning the public about bike theft trends through mediums like Today@CSU.

Harris also mentioned that having a police presence on campus deters bike thieves from stealing. However, he stressed

that one main reason bikes are stolen is simply because bikers don’t use the right lock: a U-lock.

“Just by using a pair of wire cutters you can cut through a cable lock in seconds and take a

bike,” Harris said. “Some cable locks can even be opened just by pulling hard on them. U-locks, though, are very hard to defeat and take away a bike thief’s op-portunity.”

Some students, like junior liberal arts major Aaron Grin-sell, learned this lesson the hard way. His bike wasn’t

See BIKES on Page 6

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HOUSEHUNTING

SPORTS | PAGE 7

TAMING THE WOLF PACK

BASKETBALL TEAMS SWEEP NEVADA

NEW STUDENT HOUSING UNDERWAYNEWS | PAGE 3

Football signs 24 recruits to 2013 class

ATHLETIC VS. ACADEMICStudent Financial Services analyzes aid, scholarship disbursement

CSUPD attempts to curb bike the� s on campus

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By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Hunkered down in departments around campus, a small team of stat-isticians stays busy compiling applica-tion and enrollment data at CSU.

The information is looked at every week, and short- and long-term strate-gies related to student fi nancial aid, ac-cess and enrollment are analyzed regu-larly by the Student Financial Services department, said Student Financial Services director Tom Biedscheid.

“We might ask them how many students do we have in this area, what’s the yield rate,” Biedscheid said. “There’s a core crew that drives it all within the division.”

With student loan debt and the de-

faults that come with it hitting an all time high, potential students are being extra vigilant about every dollar they can save when deciding which college to enroll in.

Academic ScholarshipsThis year, students at CSU will re-

ceive approximately $26.2 million in academic scholarships.

A priority for any university is at-tracting a diverse student body which includes high ability, academically successful students, Biedscheid said. Competition is tight to get the 4.0 GPA students with high test scores and sparkling resumes to enroll at any uni-versity.

The largest award CSU offers non-residents is the Triple Crown –– a to-

tal of 244 scholarships ranging from $20,000 to $36,000 spread out over four years.

One of the more coveted scholar-ships for in-state students is the Green and Gold Scholarship, which is $2,000 per year over four years.

“It’s competitive in a lot of ways,” Biedscheid said. “It’s the kind of stu-dent that’s going to get an offer like this from essentially any university.”

As a sign of this competition, CU–Boulder recently created the Esteemed Scholars Scholarship that goes into ef-fect this fall.

Depending upon GPA and test scores, approximately 20 percent of in-coming resident freshmen are

See SCHOLARSHIP on Page 5

By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Size, athleticism and depth.

All three were serious needs for CSU football head-ing into the 2013 off-season, and coach Jim McElwain be-lieves his next recruiting class fi lls them all.

In his fi rst full recruiting cycle since becoming the head coach of CSU, McElwain and his staff announced the addi-tion of 24 players, including 20 from high school and four ju-nior college transfers.

“We’re really excited about the quality of the individuals that we brought in … I know we’ve answered some needs,” McElwain said at the an-nouncement press conference. “Each and every one of them we expect to be impact players at sometime in their career.”

In McElwain’s newest class is a potential quarterback in Murrieta, Calif. native Nick Stevens. Stevens impressed CSU coaches during a summer workout in which he threw around 65 passes, displaying his ability to hit every route with accuracy.

“He missed one throw. Ev-erything else was a catchable, on target, release,” offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin said. “We came away from there going, ‘This is a phenom.’ ... It was a no brainer. There were a lot of people that came back on him.”

Baldwin talked about his athletic prowess as an excit-ing facet to his game that at-tracted the attention of schools like Boise State. Stevens won a championship in his junior

See RECRUITS on Page 6

46 Bikes- North side dorms (Towers, Corbett, Parmalee, Allison, Lory Apts)

34 Bikes- South side dorms (Ingersoll, Summit, Academic Village, Edwards, Newsom, Braiden)

26 Bikes- Student Center/Engineering area

18 Bikes- Clark/Morgan Library, Eddy area

15- Southeast admin (Chemistry, Gifford, Pathology, Microbiology, Yates, PERC)

Bikes stolen on campus in 2012

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Practice Dummies

It’s no secret that the CSU football team hasn’t done well in the past. Clearly, they are in need of some new equipment... new, live equip-ment. Nobody would ever steal a bike if they knew that, if caught, they’d be doomed to being smashed by linebackers for eternity!

Geese ShepherdsEvery spring, CSU is plagued by geese. And someone needs to make sure that they don’t wander onto sidewalks. Fit-ting, then, that the bike-grab-bing scum of the city should be punished by wallowing in geese drop-pings.

Arrested by Bike

Cops� e irony of this is inescap-able. As is the humiliation.

Punishments for bike thieves

Honors Society President Lauren Hartsough sits in her biological psychology class last Thursday, Jan. 31. Hartsough represents a portion of the CSU population that will receive $26.2 million in academic scholarships this year.

ERIN MROSS | COLLEGIAN

“Every coach wants to award all the scholarships. It’s a competitive disadvantage if they don’t. It’s a moving target and takes a lot of attention and management.”

Christine Susemihl | Senior associate athletic director for internal operations

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Junior mechanical engineering major Noah Clark drowns out the sounds of construction around the Lory Student Center Theatre as he plays the grand piano Wednesday. Clark was practicing a classical version of Eminem’s song “Love the Way You Lie.”

ERIN MROSS | COLLEGIAN

Community Briefs

Poudre River Trail closed between Lincoln Avenue and Mulberry Street

Starting in late 2013, the Mulberry Street bridge over the Poudre River will be re-placed by the Colorado De-partment of Transportation.

The city’s utility depart-ment will relocate major sewer and water lines just upstream of the existing bridge to accommodate the new, wider road bridge.

The department will be-gin work this month, which is scheduled to be complet-ed in May.

During this time frame, the Poudre Trail at the Mul-berry Bridge will be closed and trail users will be de-toured along Lincoln Street and Lemay Avenue. Trail users are encouraged to avoid the construction area for their safety and to allow the contractor to effi ciently complete their work.

City hosting open house to discuss design plans for College Avenue

Changes have recently been made along North Col-lege Avenue, from Jefferson Street to Conifer Street.

The City of Fort Collins will

host an open house Wednes-day, Feb. 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 215 N. Mason St. to discuss the fi nal proposed improvements, which will stretch from Coni-fer Street to Willox Lane.

The city aims to begin construction on this section of N. College Ave. in 2014.

At the open house, at-tendees will be able to view design plans for bike lanes, sidewalks, landscape and urban design features.

Premium rooms available for students returning to residence halls

Students interested in living in the residence halls again next fall can now choose from premium rooms.

The choices include rooms in Aspen Hall; lofts in Parmelee Hall; single rooms in Summit, Durward, West-fall and Corbett Halls; dou-ble-as-single rooms in Inger-soll, Edwards and Newsom Halls; designated upperclass fl oors in Summit and New-som Halls; and three-room corner units with private bedrooms in Westfall and Durward Halls.

No money is due at the time of signing and students’ deposits from this year will roll over to next fall.

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By MCKENNA FERGUSONThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Colorado may soon take what some consider an important step toward equal rights for all its resi-dents.

The Colorado General Assembly is currently in the process of reviewing the Colorado Civil Union Act, which would allow same-sex couples to enter into a civil union.

The bill went through the Senate committee on Jan. 23 and is expected to pass. It has the backing of the democratic majority and of Gov. John Hicken-looper.

Similar bills have ap-peared in the general as-sembly before, only to be killed before reaching the governor. With the support the bill has currently, many are saying this will be the year it succeeds.

The difference between civil unions and marriage is important to note. Ac-cording to Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, there are over a thousand legal protections given to married couples that are not given to those in a civil union. These include things like taking time off work to care for a loved one, Social Security survivor benefi ts

and more. “My initial reaction is

close, but not quite there yet,” said Amy Power, se-nior health and exercise science major and mem-ber of the student orga-nization, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Allied People of CSU. “I’d rather have civil unions than nothing at all.”

Civil unions do afford some of the same rights as marriage, including adopt-ing children, visiting each other in the hospital and making medical decisions for one another.

“It’s a step forward be-cause it means that the collective consciousness of Colorado is starting to move forward in a positive direction,” said Maureen Kosse, SOGLBT member and senior linguistics ma-jor.

Many believe that while civil unions are a step for-ward, they are not enough.

“I’m definitely torn between two feelings: on the one hand, it’s a step in the right direction, but it does at times feel like a cop-out,” said Ian Farrow, vice president of SOGLBT and senior microbiology major.

The reason for civil unions as opposed to mar-

riage is that in 2006 Colora-do passed a constitutional ban on same-sex unions by defi ning marriage as some-thing exclusively between a man and a woman. This can only be overturned by a vote of the people.

“Civil unions are the most we can do legislative-ly to provide equality and justice to people in loving and committed relation-ships,” said District 43 rep-resentative Randy Fischer. “I think it’s important for us to send a message. I think this would be a big step for civil rights and equality for all our citizens.”

Many residents are hoping that if the civil union bill passes it could eventually lead to mar-riage for same-sex cou-ples.

“I’m not going to say that I’m not crossing my fi ngers,” Powers said. “I eventually hope to be mar-ried, and I love the state of Colorado. So for me to have to move to get mar-ried is actually pretty heart-breaking because this is my home.”

If passed, Colorado will become the sixth state with civil union laws.

Collegian Writer McK-enna Ferguson can be reached at [email protected].

Colorado soon to decide on new civil union bill

By CARRIE MOBLEYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

A new city action plan will bring more student housing to Fort Collins upon its approval in the upcoming weeks.

Although it may seem like there are plenty of places for students to choose from, Neighborhood Services Manager Beth Sowder said it is the low vacancy rates at current student housing complexes which helped spur the action plan.

“We realized we don’t have that many multi-fami-ly complexes,” Sowder said. “We have a shortage, and we are trying to respond to that.”

Sowder added that three new complexes are already approved and underway. Those buildings will be com-pleted in fall 2013 and will bring an estimated 3,000 new bedrooms to the city.

“The action plan really focused on what’s available and also on what’s coming,” Sowder said. “And we believe

that what’s coming with it will be able to provide for the city’s housing needs for fi ve to seven years.”

One of the three new complexes that is being built is The Summit on College. According to Pat Postal, di-rector of leasing for the com-plex, it is expected to be com-pleted over summer 2013.

“The reason students will choose (The Summit) is because of the overall feel,” Postal said. “Its competi-tive in price to other similar complexes and it has great amenities, along with the advantage of being a brand new complex.”

Postal went on to say that the complex will also offer a re-tail center, with a much differ-ent feel than complexes nor-mally offer here in Fort Collins. Sowder says this is a common goal of the action plan.

“A lot of the action plan focuses on compatibility be-tween single family spaces and multi-family spaces,” Sowder said. “That could be as simple as planning for

more common recreation areas within an apartment complex, so there will be less of an impact on the immedi-ate community outside it.”

These new types of spaces are exactly what draws stu-dents in, according to one stu-dent who has already signed a lease at a new complex.

“I chose (The Summit) because it had a combina-tion of all the things that appealed to me,” said Beth Sonnema, who signed her lease last semester to live in the complex next fall. “It was close to campus, brand new, lots of rooming choices and a decent price all in one place.”

According to Sowder, the most important part about the action plan is that it’s not comprehensive.

“It’s all about the here and now,” Sowder said. “Most actions are immedi-ate, and the longest ones are about two or three years into the future.”

City Beat Reporter Car-rie Mobley can be reached at [email protected].

Home sweet...apartment?A construction crew works on the roof of the new student apartment complex, The Summit, on the corner of College Avenue and Prospect Street. The complex is expected to be completed in summer of 2013 and is apart of a plan to increase the student housing in Fort Collins.

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New student housing action plan to bring more than 3,000 living spaces to Fort Collins students next fall

“Civil unions are the most we can do legislatively to provide equality and justice to people in loving

and committed relationships.”Randy Fischer | District 43 representative

The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Thursday, February 7, 2013 3

As a former director of RamRide, it made me deeply sad to hear of the incident that occurred this past weekend. Your recent editorial enti-tled “RamRide has broken our trust,” while bringing up a few good points, threatens to tarnish a wonderful program that has provided Colorado State University and the Fort Collins community with almost ten years of outstanding service. Does this incident bring up the necessity for RamRide to review its policies? Yes, it does. Should the student body lose its trust in the program? Absolutely not.

Your opinion piece begins by de-grading the purpose of the program as “a guilt free way for students to go out, party and return home safe.” From its inception, RamRide has offered a free, safe and non-judgmental way for stu-dents to get home on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. While admittedly a majority of people who utilize the program have been out at the bars or

at parties, there have been many cases where a student simply needed a ride home from work or the library. Your ed-itorial staff and CSU students should be reminded that RamRide is a privilege afforded to them by the volunteered time of many dedicated students.

The actions of this one volunteer should in no way erase the collective actions of the thousands of students who have volunteered before him. They have dedicated their time to building this program into what it is today and every single person involved in any way should be proud of that.

Should students who call RamRide expect that their driver is sober and will get them home safely? Without question. Is it the responsibility of RamRide and its directors to make sure their policies ensure this stan-dard? Absolutely.

I have no doubt that ASCSU, Ram-Ride and the university administration will work together to analyze current

policies and create any necessary new ones in light of this incident. Whether that is more staff training, volunteer restrictions or placing a GPS tracker on each car, this issue will be addressed.

But as the current Director of Ram-Ride stated, “We are entrusting a lot in our volunteers,” this means that as CSU students you need to expect better from each other and be responsible for your own actions. Use common sense, follow the policies RamRide has in place and listen to the directors in charge of the program. It is not funny or cool to put people’s lives at risk and I hope that now students recognize that RamRide is not a joke. It is a service that needs to be treated with the utmost respect by both patrons and volunteers.

Many years of blood, sweat and tears have gone into creating and main-taining the RamRide program. Do not let the actions of one person and the scare tactics of one article ruin what is such a good thing for CSU.

Holli Kinkel, Class of 2008

Recently, I have found myself attracted to watching the various documentaries that are available on Netflix. This is the kind of thing I do in my spare time, but it pays off.

Mostly, I watch these pictures to get the facts, such as seeing what really caused the financial meltdown and put faces on those who were responsible, but I will watch any-thing that seeks to report the truth no matter what.

Currently, my favorite documen-tary is “Flow: For the Love of Water.” Some of you have probably seen it, but a large proportion of the popula-tion has likely never heard of it.

Essentially, the film covers several locations through-out the world exposing the downright criminal acts of major corporations such as Nestle and Coca-Cola as they put profits above people.

The film examines the effects that the privatization of water supply in different areas is having on local pop-ulations along with the social consequences of privat-ized water.

“Flow” exposes the truly immoral act that is the privatization of water.

I understand that we live in a capitalist system and I also recognize that there may not be a better way of effectively distributing water to a population than by having a company control it.

However, my main problem with privatized water is when corporations begin to redistribute water around the world for the purpose of making profits.

What I do not understand is how a company can simply be allowed to take water out of a spring or glacier and then bottle it up and sell it off around the globe when they have no right to do so.

In the documentary, local residents often saw their local water resources dry up or become polluted, dev-astating the local health and economy of places ranging from India to Michigan.

In Michigan, Nestle leased land from the govern-ment for a meager $65 thousand for 99 years; unbeliev-able right? Wait, it gets better.

The residents discovered that the streams that they had formerly relied on to supply water to their homes were reduced to mere trickles of their former selves, which made it downright difficult to cook, farm or drink anything.

Nestle was simply taking water that should have belonged to the residents of the town that had relied on it for generations and was selling it off around the world for exorbitant prices.

This is not the same as BP drilling for oil and then selling that off, as oil is completely different resource. It is a non-renewable and non-life critical resource, thus separating it from water completely.

Water is needed by every human being in order to survive. If they cannot afford it are they simply supposed to die?

Who says that a business can control who gets water and who doesn’t? No company or person should have the right to control water distribution that has profit in mind.

These mega-corporations pick an area and pay a ridiculously low fee to suck up all the water and then proceed to charge people ridiculously high prices for a resource that should not have been theirs to begin with.

I would argue that if we are going to let companies redistribute our water and sell it to us for prices that are simply outrageous, we should let them control our air supply as well. We seem to be heading down that road so we might as well get it over with now.

Imagine living in neighborhoods that were walled off from each other and each area had to pay for oxygen. I would posit that charging people for water is equally as whacked.

I suppose though that part of the problem lies with people buying bottled water, which in and of itself is a crime against humanity, which you will see if you set aside an hour to watch “Flow.”

Seriously, do not buy bottled water. It will send a message to these corporations that we are not going to pay for a natural resource that we have a right to as human beings.

Still not convinced? Consider this: according to the film, there is less than one person in the federal govern-ment that is responsible for overseeing the quality of bottled water.

You are not getting any guarantee that your expen-sive, humanity-choking bottled water is any better than the tap. Some of the time, it is probably worse.

Res Stecker is a junior international studies major. His columns appear Thursdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

February is typically a stress-ful month for students. Your daily schedule for the semester is ba-sically set and you’re beginning to feel the full burden of classes, work and extracurriculars, al-ready starting to count down the days until Spring Break, or even the end of the semester.

You’re right to already be looking so long term. It’s ac-tually very important that you do so about this time of year or else before you know it you might not be able to find a place to live for the following school year.

A place to live can be hard to find in Fort Collins despite the

high living costs, especially with the U+2 ordinance in the city, which dictates that you can live

in a house with no more than two other people who are not re-

lated to you.Luckily, Fort Collins is in the

process of acquiring additional housing for students that’s both pretty close to campus and fairly affordable in comparison to oth-ers, such as the complex Summit on College.

If you don’t want to check out the new housing options, you can always stick with clas-sics like Ram’s Pointe, Ram’s Vil-lage, a small house near campus or any of the nearby apartment complexes.

But wherever you decide to live, start looking for housing soon. It’ll all fill up before you know it.

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My name is Robin Sager. I am a CSU alumna and I served as both an assistant and associate director of RamRide from 2005 to 2007, logging about 500 hours of volunteer service in the two and a half years I attended CSU. One of my colleagues from the program directed me to the editorial you wrote concerning last weekend’s incident involving a RamRide driver driving for the program while under the influence of marijuana. Clearly this student, and doubtless others, are under the impres-sion that marijuana is absolutely harm-less and does not have an effect on their ability to operate a vehicle, even though science and the law both say otherwise. Therefore, it is absolutely ap-palling to me that instead of using your position on campus as a widely-read circular to remind students that driving while high is comparable to driving while drunk, you inexplicably chose to trash RamRide as a program, ignoring everything that alumni and your fellow students have done that make it such an amazing program.

The fact that a student made an

independent decision to commit an illegal and moronic act does not have any bearing on the efficacy of RamRide, which is one of the most successful programs of its kind in the country. RamRide, ASCSU and CSU are not clairvoyant entities, and asking them to have been able to predict and prevent this kind of behavior before it occurs is akin to asking police officers to arrest people for DUI before they have even begun drinking, or asking HR to fire someone before the sexual harassment of his subordinate began.

When I was a student, RamRide ran (and I assume it continues to run) back-ground checks on its volunteers solely to assure the safety of its patrons. Students judged to be a risk to safety based on the data given to the program by the university are not placed in situations where they will be a risk, should they be allowed to volunteer at all. If there are no known prior bad acts, there is no reason to suspect someone would do something as unbelievably stupid as what happened last weekend. RamRide obviously did not provide the student with the marijuana,

and I am at a loss to understand how a student making an independent and stu-pid decision is a reflection on the quality of the program as a whole.

Volunteering for the RamRide program was the highlight of my career at CSU. I have made lifelong friends with many of my fellow volunteers, have some incredible stories from driving some unforgettable folks home and learned valuable leadership skills that I continue to use in my post-collegiate career. I always encourage people I meet planning on attending CSU to volunteer for the service because of how rewarding it is to know that you have a direct im-pact on student and community safety. RamRide and its volunteers should not be and are not held above reproach. However, the service it provides has too much of a tangible impact on the safety of all CSU students and the city of Fort Collins at large for the Collegian to try and scare students away from using this amazing service with yellow journal-ism and irresponsible reporting. Please exercise more discretion in the future.

Robin Sager, Class of 2007

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expected to receive one of the three scholarships rang-ing from $10,000 to $20,000 over four years.

“It’s obviously the high-ly sought-after student not only from other state insti-tutions but from outside of Colorado, and we just want-ed to be able to offer them an opportunity to encourage them to attend CU,” said Su-san Yountz, associate direc-tor of the offi ce of fi nancial aid at CU.

Biedscheid acknowl-edged that competition like this is a good thing, both for students and institutions.

“Now that they have that in place we need to respond with a scholarship that’s higher.”

As students become more savvy about fi nanc-es and, in many cases, re-ceive admission offers from multiple schools, enroll-ing students across a range of demographics can be a complicated process that involves heavy number crunching as much as it does sending out glossy bro-chures.

The scholarship dis-bursement system is part of this equation, Biedscheid said.

Besides providing fi nan-cial assistance for both mer-it- and need-based students, scholarships also draw in certain student populations if applications or enrollment are down within those pop-ulations, which naturally changes from year to year.

If the university wants to attract more transfer stu-dents, for example, a schol-arship may be offered that

caters to those students. Figuring out enrollment,

predicting future fi nances, offering fi nancial aid pack-ets, tracking retention rates and student demograph-ics, and fi guring out which scholarships to offer is a year-round, never-ending process, Biedscheid said.

“Fall hasn’t even started yet and we’re already talking about fall 2014,” Biedscheid said.

Lauren Hartsough, a sophomore psychology and criminal justice major, de-cided to stay close to home when she chose to enroll at CSU.

The Poudre High School graduate participated in an International Baccalaureate program and graduated with honors. She fi elded offers from a number of schools, including CU–Boulder, but decided on CSU largely be-cause the admissions pro-cess was easier.

Twelve thousand dollars in scholarship money over four years didn’t hurt either.

Hartsough, who’s also the president of the Univer-sity Honors Student Associ-ation, was offered the Green and Gold Scholarship and the Honors Scholarship by CSU.

“I haven’t had to take out any loans. It’s been a huge help,” Hartsough said. “It means I can take more credit hours per semester without it being such a fi nancial bur-den.”

Hartsough plans on pur-suing a doctorate degree in forensic neuroscience to study brain physiology on a molecular level in the crimi-nal population to see if their brains are different than the

rest of the population.Even with complex algo-

rithms tracking thousands of applications and enrollment trends, and the university strategizing accordingly on a regular basis, at the end of the day nothing can truly predict human behavior.

“The dynamic at the heart of it is it’s an 18-year-old and who knows what they’re going to do,” Bied-scheid said. “Even with all the research that’s been done on it, it’s still an inter-esting challenge.”

Athletic ScholarshipsWhile academic schol-

arships are handled by the Student Financial Services offi ce, athletic scholarships are distributed in-house by the athletic department.

The money for athletic scholarships at CSU comes from a combination of pri-vate support, revenue gener-ating and university support, such as the $208 athletics fee every full time student pays each year.

A complex mathematical formula the NCAA uses de-termines how many full ride scholarships a university may distribute each year. At CSU, that number is 208 full ride scholarships totalling $7.3 million.

Regulations stipulate how many athletic scholar-ships can be awarded per team, with some sports al-lowing the scholarships to be divided into smaller awards. Others, like football, have to offer the full scholarship to each athlete, said Christine Susemihl, senior associate athletic director for internal operations.

Susemihl estimated 65

percent of athletic scholar-ships go to out of state stu-dents, with coaches having the discretion to award their allotated scholarships as they see fi t.

“The coaches decide the scholarships, they fi nd the recipients, make the offers — it’s their decision,” Suse-mihl said. “We still give the fi nal approval.”

Most are awarded year to year, although the NCAA recently changed its rules to allow scholarships to be of-fered for multiple years.

With a constant rotation of players graduating, new ones coming in as fresh-men, the NCAA tweaking rules and new teams being created as others disband, the athletic scholarships are

in a constant state of fl uctu-ation.

“Every coach wants to award all the scholarships. It’s a competitive disadvan-tage if they don’t,” Susemihl said. “It's a moving target and takes a lot of attention and management.”

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

Scholarship funds by comparison

CSU CU-BOULDER

$911.7 million*

* Numbers based on: CSU reports for 2012-2013; CU-Boulder reports for 2011-2012**Allowed under NCAA rules (some of those can be divided up)

$1.24 billion*

Academic scholarships:

Academic scholarships:

Total budget

$29,097,900*2.9%

2.3%

Athletic budget

373301

208209.4

263271

$7.30 million

$8.06 million

$25.0 million

$54.2 million

Student athletes

Full ride scholarships**

Total athletic scholarships

FY13 athletic scholarship amount

$26,258,160*

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SCHOLARSHIP | $26.2 mill. for academic, $7.3 mill. for athleticsThe Rocky Mountain Collegian | Thursday, February 7, 2013 5

By HALEIGH HAMBLIN The Rocky Mountain Collegian

It’s not everyday that a 1980s group is revived at CSU. But that’s the case with the return of the university’s busi-ness marketing club, DECA.

Alex Carter, an advisor in the College of Business recently reintroduced DECA to CSU in fall 2012. While Carter was not involved in DECA at the high school or collegiate level, she said she is a student at heart.

“What DECA has to offer students is the opportunity,” Carter said. “We are hoping to have a couple workshops and training sessions that will appeal to our members and those other interested students.”

Organized at the state, district and local level, Colo-rado DECA is split into four collegiate levels including CU–Boulder, CU–Colorado Springs, Johnson and Wales College of Business and most recently CSU.

DECA organizers test participants on their knowl-

edge and career exploration every year at national and regional conferences.

Colorado DECA is a char-tered State Association of Na-tional DECA and is set up on the state constitution and by-laws developed by their mem-bers. Colorado DECA runs on 17 elected offi cers: president, vice president, secretary, trea-surer, publicity director and 12 regional vice presidents.

“This international as-sociation is comprised of two levels on the high school and collegiate level,” Everett Vaughan, student advisor of Colorado, said. “Our goal is to prepare and train stu-dents outside of the class-room and give them real life experience for their futures.”

Vaughan has been work-

ing with CSU for the last year and a half on the develop-ment of the chapter.

Casey Cook, CSU DECA chapter president, currently works a full-time job with the Department of Agriculture at CSU, in addition to going to school. Cook recently decided to attend CSU to obtain a de-gree after serving in the mili-tary for 11 years.

“You can only get so far in life without a degree,” Cook said. “DECA has the opportunity to become a strong organization. It is all about what we can do to help them help us.”

“We are focusing on what we can do to help them and how they can help us grow to becoming a better organiza-tion,” Cook said.

Members are given a sce-nario 10 to 30 minutes before meeting with a judge where they will be judged on fi ve per-formance indicators. Based on performance, students are ranked and receive stage rec-ognition for the top 10 and tro-phies within the top three.

Although the CSU DECA chapter will not be competing at the upcoming conference in Colorado Springs, Carter

and Cook will be holding a booth for recruitment. The CSU DECA chapter is focus-ing on recruiting and training this semester with hopes to send a few members to the national competition in Cali-fornia in April.

In the upcoming weeks, CSU DECA will host guest speakers from local businesses OtterBox and New Belgium Brewery.

On Feb. 6, the CSU DECA chapter will hold a member-ship drive at 6 p.m. in Rock-well Hall North. All interest-ed members of all majors are invited to come.

For more information on Colorado DECA or joining the CSU chapter, visit their web-site deca.cccs.edu.

Collegian writer Haleigh Hamblin can be reached at [email protected].


CSU chapter president of DECA, Casey Cook, answers questions at DECA’s fi rst informational meeting of the spring semester. Meetings for the club are held every Wednesday from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. in Rockwell North.

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tened with a U-lock last year when it was stolen.

“Now I use a U-lock,” Grinsell said. “I also try to put my bike in a visible place too so people will see if someone is taking my bike.”

It might seem like stealthy bike thieves frequently get away with this crime, but the CSUPD can often catch them after students report they witnessed a theft unfold. The

CSUPD has even recovered stolen bikes just by looking on craigslist.com.

“I think the police do what they can since it is such a big campus,” Watt said. “I think it is more up to the stu-dents to share a common re-spect, and if they see some-one trying to steal a bike stop them or just report any suspicious activity.”

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year and lost another in his senior season.

Championship appear-ances seemed to be a focus in this recruiting class with a total of six championships in the group and 48 com-bined playoff appearances. After years of disappoint-ment, the program want-ed a group that expects to win and more importantly, knows how to win.

“Guys that are used to winning, they fi nd it really hard to throw in the tow-el,” McElwain said. “That is something that is so im-portant because it says a lot about a guy that knows how to win. Winning does not come easy … the day-

to-day work ethic. Those guys that are winners, they always have a way to dig down deep and fi gure out a way to get it done.”

Wide receiver was a position McElwain said he was very pleased with, in that the Rams added much needed size, joking that he wanted to fi nd guys at least taller than him (about 5 feet 10 inches).

Rashard Higgins, Sam-mie Long, Elroy Masters and Xavier Williams are all 6 feet 2 inches or taller, allow-ing them to play the outside positions and move current wide receivers like Thomas Coffman and Charles Lovett in the slot full time. The new corp’s athletic ability will be evident once they get on the

fi eld, according to Baldwin.“We are gonna go deep,”

Baldwin said. “I think the mismatches that you get, and the physicality, we’re gonna be able to run the football, too. If you’re big and can get in on the safe-ties, that’s going to help us in that aspect too. I really want to create mismatches, and I think those kinds of receiv-ers do.”

While the offense has added pieces for the future, the most likely position group to impact the team by next fall will be the defen-sive line, bolstered by junior college transfers Terry Jack-son and LaRyan King.

“We’re real happy with the older guys that are coming in that have that

size and maturity that can get in and hold point a lit-tle bit better,” co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Mary English said. “We needed (size), and it shows. It shows in the games where we needed that help, so we addressed that right away.”

Only two high school recruits, defensive line-man Austin Berk and tight end Brett Jordan, are en-rolled for the spring se-mester and able to partic-ipate in spring practices, while the rest will join the team around June 17, the start of the second sum-mer session.

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By QUENTIN SICKAFOOSEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

With the arrival of the latter part of its season and important Mountain West matchups beginning to heat up, the CSU women’s bas-ketball team has been ready to start putting more tallies in its win column.

The Rams did just that Wednesday night when conference rival Nevada traveled to Moby before walking away wearing its seventh straight loss, falling to CSU 59-50.

“No coach likes to watch that,” Nevada coach Jane Al-bright said. “You want your teams to execute, but their defense is very good. We had a hard trouble fi nding shooters.”

The fi rst 10 minutes of the game were evenly matched, experiencing the lead change seven different times. CSU was then able to fi nish the half on a 15-4 run to take a nine point lead into the locker room at half-time.

The Rams’ early suc-cess came from being able to defend the three starting guards for the Wolf Pack, who have been their key scorers all season.

“We didn’t let them get out and go. Those guards, they’ve got a different gear, I think we kept them con-tained and corralled most of the night,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “They couldn’t get into attack mode, which when they get there, they’re pretty darn good.”

Although it never re-gained the lead after the fi rst half, Nevada put out a second half surge, going on a 10-0 run to pull back within two possessions with three minutes left to play.

“I think in the fi rst half we played more as a team, they applied more pressure the second half and that’s when we started to fall apart as a team,” senior forward Meghan Heimstra said.

Despite the late effort, CSU was able to match Ne-vada’s 26 second half points to secure its nine point lead when the fi nal buzzer went off.

“Coach calmed us down and said ‘Let’s go, we’re not losing this game, we’re pro-tecting Moby,’” junior for-ward Sam Martin said.

CSU improves to 7-14, 2-5 MW as Nevada’s losing streak lives on, putting it at 6-14, 1-6 MW.

The Rams will have the weekend off before playing

a red hot San Diego State (15-5) next Wednesday on the road.

“We’ll practice Friday and Saturday, and we’ll bust them up and get some work done. Then get ready for San Diego State,” Williams said. “If we continue to grow offensively, I think we can be a tough team to beat.”

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

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Sam Martin (12) fi ghts for a basket against Nevada during last night’s game in Moby Arena. The Rams beat Nevada 59-50.

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Nevada rally fails, CSU stops home losing streak

Rams survive road scare at NevadaBy ANDREW SCHALLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

After falling into a 20-8 hole within the fi rst eight minutes of the game, CSU men's basketball mounted a comeback to defeat Nevada 73-69 despite senior forward Pierce Hornung playing only three minutes due to a stom-ach illness.

Stepping up and lead-ing the Rams in the scor-ing department was senior forward Greg Smith, who led the Rams with 28 points while adding 12 rebounds in the game.

“I was just being aggres-sive,” Smith said. “Coaches came in last night and told me to put my best game out there on the fl oor and get my practice into the game and that’s what I did tonight. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, I just made plays.”

CSU (19-4, 6-2) man-aged to make it through the game without Hornung, its leading rebound man on the year, with help of senior center Colton Iverson, who provided toughness in the post while pulling down a team-high 16 rebounds and chipping in 10 points.

“It took awhile to adjust (without Hornung),” CSU coach Larry Eustachy said. “We tried him out there and he just couldn’t do it. We’ve done it before so we know how to handle it.”

Nevada (11-11, 2-6) managed to push the Rams' backs against the walls thanks in large part to se-nior guard Malik Story, who paced the Wolf Pack with 31 points on 7-for-11 shooting from three-point range.

With Story leading the charge, Nevada kept pace with the Rams in the fi nal six minutes of the game as

the two teams stayed with-in four points of each oth-er through the end of the game.

The difference in the game came with 26 sec-onds remaining in the game when after Colton Iverson made jumper, Nevada guard Jordan Burris threw a pass down into the post where no one was except for Iverson, who recorded the steal and put the Rams in position to win the game.

Four made free throws by senior guard Wes Eik-meier iced the game for the Rams and gave them their fourth straight victory and more importantly, gives CSU its second straight road conference victory, an area the team struggled in last year.

“We were extremely lucky and they were ex-tremely unfortunate not to win,” Eustachy said. “It came down to a couple plays and I thought we were fortunate, and I thought they were un-fortunate.”

The Rams will now have a week off before trying to continue their recent good fortune in a rematch against San Diego State in Fort Col-lins.

Assistant Sports Edi-tor Andrew Schaller can be reached at [email protected].

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IRVING, Texas — Just a week after Boy Scout officials signaled that they might lift a ban on gays, the national board on Wednesday post-poned a vote, extending a debate that has roiled the organization.

The decision to take up the matter again at the group’s national meeting in May suggested that the board was buffeted by the furor that erupted after it announced it might allow local units to de-cide whether to admit gays as scouts and leaders.

President Barack Obama, several senators, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and others spoke out in favor of ending the ban, and pe-titions purportedly bearing 1.4 million signatures were presented at Scouting head-quarters in Texas.

But the ban retained strong backing among im-portant constituencies in the Scouts, including the Southern Baptist Conven-tion and the Family Research Council, which took to the airwaves and bought an ad defending it.

“Due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliber-ate review of its membership policy,” Deron Smith, a Boy Scouts of America spokes-man, said in a statement Wednesday, adding that the board “directed its commit-tees to further engage repre-sentatives of Scouting’s mem-bership and listen to their perspectives and concerns.”

Some experts said the Boy Scouts’ decision to continue deliberating signaled a shift at a time when the organiza-tion is struggling to maintain its membership. It was down about 19 percent during the last decade to about 2.7 mil-lion as of 2011, the most re-cent year available.

“They have different con-stituencies and they’re being torn between them,” said Marc Poirier, a professor at Seton Hall University School of Law who has studied the Boy Scouts. “I’m sure there are some powerful individu-als who feel the Scouts’ brand is tarnished if they back off the policy. And clearly there are people who feel that way

on the other side.”The U.S. Supreme Court

ruled in 2000 that the Scouts, as a private organization, could exclude gays. After a two-year internal review, the Boy Scouts board reaffirmed the ban in July.

Supporters of the ban were troubled to see Boy Scout lead-ers even considering a change.

“We have some serious misunderstandings in our upper echelons that they’re even willing to consider this,” said Chuck Helms, 55, a Dallas lawyer and assistant Scoutmaster who attend-ed a rally outside Boy Scout headquarters near Dallas on Wednesday that was attend-ed by more than 100 people.

He said he thought the board had been swayed by pressure from United Way chapters and other groups that have withheld funding because of the ban. One sign at the rally said: “It’s about the boys, not the donations — hold the line.”

“We have a board that seems to be more concerned with United Way donations than the messages we’re sending to our young people about character formation,” Helms said.

Wednesday’s announce-ment came during Boy Scouts’ bridging season, when boys rise to the next level of Scouting.

Some parents who sup-port the ban said they were

considering withdrawing their boys and enrolling them in religious youth pro-grams such as the Southern Baptist Convention’s Royal Ambassadors, or perhaps forming new Scouting off-shoots like the American Heritage Girls, created in 1995 as a Christian alterna-tive to the Girl Scouts.

Marie LeGrand, 55, of Allen, Texas, promised to re-move her 10-year-old son, Rory, from Scouting if the ban was lifted. His troop, like 70 percent nationwide, is spon-sored by a faith-based group, the local Catholic church.

Opponents of the ban were disappointed Wednes-

day, but encouraged that it may finally be lifted in May.

Cheyton Jain, 18, became an Eagle Scout last year as part of Santa Monica (Calif.) Troop 2, which he said had benefited from allowing gay members and the involvement of gay and lesbian parents — despite the national ban.

“This is a huge step” for the Boy Scouts of America, he said of the decision to consider lifting the ban. “With pressure coming from Obama, I think they’re coming to their sens-es. … As a liberal Boy Scout, I think this needs to be taken down. It’s going to cause a lot of controversy, but we’re going to benefit from it.”

scouts delay vote on gay ban

Protesters gather outside the Boy Scouts of America national headquarters in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, to voice their opposition against allowing gays as members.

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