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By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Two RamRide volunteers in the same car were pulled over on suspicion of DUI, and the driver was arrested Fri-day at approximately 2 a.m. by CSUPD while operating a RamRide vehicle, according to a spokesperson for the Associ-ated Students of CSU.

The car’s passenger-side navigator was issued a ticket and let free, the spokesperson

added.That night, approximately

15 people were driven home by each RamRide vehicle, accord-ing to department director Chelsey Green. At the time of the arrest, however, no one but the driver and navigator were in the car, said ASCSU Chief of Staff Robert Duran.

Duran said the volunteer was arrested on unknown charges. However, according to a public information offi cer from the Larimer County Dis-

trict Attorney’s offi ce, a CSU student was handed four crim-inal charges that same day, including counts of speeding, driving under the infl uence of liquor, possession of mari-juana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

All charges are misde-meanors, according to a crimi-nal history records search at the Colorado Bureau of Inves-tigation’s website.

A source with knowledge of the incident confi rmed that the name of the volunteer is the same as the name of the student charged.

“We’ve never had this

See RAMRIDE on Page 8

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ASCSU looking at smoke free CSUBy AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

A little over two years since an eight-question tobacco sur-vey was distributed to approxi-mately 2,500 students in fall semester of 2010, CSU student government is still in the pro-cess of exploring the possibility of a tobacco free campus.

Audrey Purdue, health di-rector of the Associated Stu-dents of CSU, said student government is trying to put together forums later this se-mester that would be hosted by the Center for Public Delibera-tion to “further gauge student opinion and voices on this type of issue.”

No date has been set for the forums, but ASCSU, at the re-quest of the CPD, is putting to-gether another smaller survey to gauge what to address once the forums are set.

The new survey may be ad-ministered in the next weeks, according to Purdue.

This would be the third sur-vey done, with the largest, most comprehensive one being the

See BAN on Page 3

By SEAN MEEDSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

On Tuesday, Feb. 5, the large Campbell’s Soup can that sits outside the University Cen-ter for the Arts is being sent to Los Angeles for restoration.

J. Landis Martin and his wife Sharon Martin are the two donors funding the can’s resto-ration. The couple noticed the can’s deterioration while on a tour with CSU President Tony Frank.

J. Martin is the founder and managing partner of Platte

See CAMPBELL on Page 6

Campbell’s can cruising to California

Average car drove 15 people home on night of arrest

“She is such a strong little girl, physically and emotionally, and we are so thankful for her strength, as we believe it will carry her through this to a cure.”

Jennifer Salvador | Jessa Salvador’s mother

A JOURNEY OF SURVIVAL12-year-old Jessa Salvador speaks to a honors seminar about her battle with leukemia Monday evening in Academic Village, as her mother Jennifer Salvador watches on. When Jessa was asked what was her favorite show was she, exclaimed, “Say Yes to the Dress!” and went on to tell the group how the show sent her an autographed picture, hat and shirt.

PHOTOS BY HUNTER THOMPSON | COLLEGIAN

Jessa Salvador explains to an honors class in Academic Village Monday evening how the purple blotches on the slide are cancer cells and the pink ones are healthy white blood cells. After overcoming leukemia at age three, Jessa had a stomach ache at age 11 after a soccer gameb and November 8, 2011 marked the end of her 5 1/2 year remission period.

By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

It’s been said that every little girl dreams of the perfect wedding day, walking down the aisle arm in arm with her father, while wearing a beautiful white gown. But for Jessa Salvador, picking out a wedding dress is not just a dream –– it’s a

goal.After being diagnosed at age three with

leukemia and surviving her fi rst round of chemotherapy treatments, Jessa and her family thought their fi ght against cancer was over. Ten years later, however, she traded in her soccer jersey for a hospital

See JESSA on Page 6

12-year-old Jessa Salvador shares her story of living with leukemia

VideoWatch CTV tonight at 8 p.m. on Channel 11 for more coverage of Jessa’s presentation.

Two RamRide volunteers in the same car were pulled over and arrested on suspicion of DUI Friday morning at 2 a.m. The driver was charged with counts of speeding, driving under the infl uence, possession of marijuana and posses-sion of drug paraphernalia.

DYLAN LANGILLE | COLLEGIAN

theSTRIPCLUB

Art always at-tracts contro-versy. And for the longest time, the can of Campbell’s Soup outside of the UCA has attracted its fair share of scrutiny. Was it really made by Andy War-hol? Is it just a cruel joke to be played on soup lovers? And who re-ally wants it there anyway? But now that it’s being removed...

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CamWe are the Colorado State Rams. What we are in desperate need of is another enormous Ram statue grac-ing university property. It’s time the UCA had some decent school spirit!

Things that Should

Replace the Soup Can

A Progresso

Can� at Campbell’s can has been hogging the spotlight for far too long. As an equal opportu-nity university, CSU needs to o� er a chance for Progresso Soup to be displayed.

Tony Frank’s Beard

You’ve all thought about it. � e � nest aspect of our university is the esteemed facial hair of Tony Frank, and it’s high time it got some time in the spotlight. ‘Nu� said.

HOW NATURAL IS ALL NATURAL?RAFAEL RIVERO DEMYSTIFIES THE SCIENCE

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Archaeology major Connor Johnen cataloges debitage (small pieces of stone stool waste) as part of his practicum under CSU graduate student Ben Perlmutter. The tedious hours spent weighing and counting chips of stone will provide valuable information about the lithic stone tool activities of ancient peoples who lived in that particular area.

Madison Brandt | COLLEGIAN

Community Briefs

New Director of Laboratory Animal Resources Lon Kendall

After conducting a nationwide search, Vice President for Research Bill Farland has named Dr. Lon Kendall Director of Laboratory Animal Re-sources at CSU. Kendall has previously served as interim director during the preceding year, and serves as an assistant pro-fessor in the Department of Microbiology, Immu-nology and Pathology within the College of Vet-erinary Medicine and Bio-medical Sciences.

Kendall, a 1994 CSU graduate, completed his residency in Laboratory Animal Medicine and re-ceived his PH.D. in Vet-erinary Pathobiology in 2000 at the University of Missouri. He’s an active member of the Ameri-can Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners, the American College of Lab-oratory Animal Medicine and the American Associ-

ation for Laboratory Ani-mal Science.

Hornung wins second Player of the Week Award

CSU senior forward Pierce Hornung was named the Mountain West Player of the week for the second time this season, the conference announced Monday.

Hornung averaged 17.5 points and 12 rebounds per game last week, while recording a double-double in each of the Rams’ wins against Boise State and Wy-oming.

This is the fifth time a CSU player has won the award this season. The MW previously honored Hornung on the week of Dec. 24, while senior cen-ter Colton Iverson won the award for the weeks of Nov. 12 and 26. Wenior guard Dorian Green was named Player of the Week for Jan. 21.

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tobacco opinion survey that was administered in April 2012.

It consisted of approxi-mately 30 questions and was distributed to 4,499 students on campus and all 6,000 fac-ulty members. Of the people who received the survey, 805 students and 1,986 faculty members responded.

It showed among other things that 19 percent of CSU students and 7 percent of faculty identifi ed as smokers, with 53 percent of students and 63 percent of faculty and staff saying they were likely to support a smoke free policy on campus.

Both groups overwhelm-ingly agreed that exposure to secondhand smoke is a health issue, with the highest amount of exposure occur-ring on trips across campus.

When asked when a fi -nal decision from student government might come on the smoke free policy, Pur-due said it wouldn’t be this semester.

“We really want to take our time on the issue and make sure everything is ex-plored, and this would be a good fi t for our campus,” she said.

Although the fi nal deci-sion to implement a smok-ing ban on campus would rest with CSU administra-

tion, Purdue said ASCSU is trying to get as many groups on campus involved so they can contribute to the dia-logue and be represented in the conversation as it moves forward.

Last semester, she pre-sented the results of the sur-vey to Faculty Council and Classifi ed Personnel Council at CSU.

University spokesman Mike Hooker said, while the issue has been discussed by a few groups on campus, the president’s cabinet hasn’t looked into it.

If it reached that level, it would have to be sponsored by a member of the cabi-net, and the group would incorporate public input and make sure the issue was looked at closely before a de-cision would be made.

“None of these issues are as easy as they appear,” Hooker said.

He said concerns that may not be obvious at fi rst glance would have to be taken into consideration before any decision would be reached.

He used an example of international students who

aren’t used to restrictions like smoking bans as being a group who would be affect-ed.

Eli Kenning, a military veteran and freshman me-chanical engineering major, said he is a former smoker and has no problem with other people smoking out-doors on campus.

“If they want to ban smoking, I want to see them kick all of the fast food plac-es out of the student center,” Kenning said.

Megan Ryan, sopho-more human development and family studies major, disagreed, but also echoed what many other students say-that there should be des-ignated smoking areas.

“I’m disgusted walking behind people who smoke,” Ryan said.

The initial tobacco con-versation was started after representatives from stu-dent government fi elded complaints about second-hand smoke on campus.

The toxicity of second-hand smoke, litter from cig-arette butts and concerns about allergies were a few of the reasons for considering the ban, Purdue said.

The tobacco discussion at CSU is part of a larger, nation-wide trend towards smoke free campuses. According to the website Smoke-Free Campus, as of Jan. 2 at least 1,130 campuses have adopted smoke free policies that com-pletely eliminated smoking on campus.

That number is up from 410 campuses in July 2010.

According to the Offi ce of Policy and Compliance at CSU, smoking is banned in all university buildings and vehicles, and prohibit-ed within 25 feet of any en-trance. This policy was put in place by CSU administra-tion in 2007.

Last December, CU–Boulder student government voted against supporting a

tobacco ban on campus.Christopher Schaef-

bauer, CU Student Govern-ment Director of Health and Safety, said part of the con-cern was there hadn’t been enough student input on the issue, and the vote was on a broader referendum on to-bacco versus zeroing in on smoking, which he felt could have passed.

Regardless of the vote, just last week the CU chan-cellor instituted a smoke free policy on campus, with a six month education phase planned before the ban takes effect in the fall .

“Even though there’s a big push for it across the county, it’s a split issue,” Schaefbauer said. “There’s concern about personal freedoms and how people would adopt if they couldn’t smoke on a campus.”

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

BAN | Final decision will rest with CSU administrationCAMPUS VOICE

Should CSU implement a smoking ban on campus?

“No. I think if you’re at least 20 feet from the building, it’s all good in my book.”

BRANDON ROUSEjunior computer science major

“I personally think they should. I’ve noticed how bad it’s gotten on campus, especially the wall outside the Morgan Library.”

PARKER LATHROPE junior business major

“Yes. In most public ar-eas, you can’t smoke, so it makes sense for a public campus to ban it. Keep it out of the plaza.”

CHASE GRIFFINsophomore business fi nance major

“No. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. If they want to regulate it, they should have designated smoking areas.”

JACOB SPHATTfreshman engineering major

“Yes. Because I’m dis-gusted walking behind people who smoke. They should at least have designated smoking areas.”

MEGAN RYAN sophomore human development and family studies major

For more information about the tobacco opinion survey visit http://www.ascsu.colostate.edu/tobacco-opinion-survey.aspx

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Given the increased renewed focus on abortion here in Colorado, and given our history with the issue of life vs. choice, it is time for me to make something clear.

First, a caveat. I am pro-choice, for a number of different reasons. This is my perspective, take it or leave it.

I am a man, and therefore have no significant role in pregnancy be-yond fertilization. I do not carry the fetus, I do not suffer the complica-tions thereof, and I am biologically

incapable of giving birth. This is a female-centric issue, not a male one.

I also do not believe that it is the role of the gov-ernment (state, national or otherwise) to have a say in what a women does or does not do with her pregnancy. To do so, I think, is a clear overextension of government power, which takes it beyond the realm of responsible and into the realm of the draconian.

Contrary to popular opinion, this does not mean that I am “pro-abortion.” I do not like abortions, I do not like that people use it as a last resort, and I do not like the idea of terminating a potential life. Regardless, it is neither my place nor the government’s to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body.

One of the pro-life arguments that routinely comes up, and that I therefore routinely have to counter, is the argument of, “Smile, your mother chose life.” The implication is that I should be thankful that I was not aborted prior to my birth.

To some in the pro-life movement, this seems to be an irrefutable argument. How can someone, they ap-pear to reason, argue for their own non-existence? How can you argue that you should be dead?

However, what they do not seem to realize is that this argument undermines every one of their positions. It inval-idates the entire case that the pro-life movement is making.

Yes, my mother chose to carry me to term. My mother chose to conceive the child that would even-tually become me. My mother chose to carry me, she chose to give birth to me, and she chose to raise me. I owe my entire existence to my mother’s choice; every-thing that I am and everything that I ever will be is a product of that choice.

And nobody told her that she had to. There was no body of authority telling her that, under penalty of law, she had to give birth to me. There was no shadowy third party that followed my development every step of the way to ensure that I would be born. There was no angry mob that was intimidating my mother into having me.

That is what choice is all about. To have the autonomy to make your own decisions regarding your own body. For a woman to have the power to choose for herself what to do with her baby is her choice, no one elses.

It is not the choice of the church — any church — or the government, or the choice of the public. If a woman wants to have an abortion, then we the people have no say otherwise.

To those of you who would say, “I became pregnant at an early age and I did not have an abortion,” good for you. I commend you on the exercise of your power to do so, and I offer you my congratulations.

But that does not give you the power to force, either through voice or law, another woman to do the same thing. You do not have the authority to mandate your own choice for everyone else. You were allowed to have a say in what to do with your pregnancy, and that same right is enshrined for everyone else.

Remember the power that lies in choice, and re-member the personal nature of that power. It is a power reserved for the individual alone. No government, no third party, no other person has the power to make that choice for them.

I am indeed grateful that my mother chose to bring me into the world. I am, however, even more grateful that she was able to make that choice free from any out-side influence. I am a product of my mother’s choice, not of the government’s or the pro-life movement’s.

That is why I am pro-choice.

Editorial Editor Caleb Hendrich is a senior Journal-ism and Political Science double major. His columns appear Tuesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

“We are entrusting a lot in our volunteers, and we cannot be aware of where our drivers are at all times,” said RamRide Director Chelsey Green.

If that is the case, then ASC-SU needs to take a very serious look as to what goes on at Ram-Ride. Conceived as a judge-ment-free way for students to go out, party, and return home safely, RamRide has had its fair share of problems in the past.

But the trust and forgiveness afforded to the most visible ASC-SU organization has finally been shattered.

We put our trust in the vol-unteers at RamRide. We trust

that they will get us home safely when we are incapable of do-

ing so ourselves. We are trust-ing them not to speed, not to be

drunk, not to be driving reck-lessly or indulging in any illicit substances. That’s what we ex-pect from RamRide.

Those are the stakes. If Ram-Ride volunteers are not willing to take the trust of the student body seriously, then we have no reason to ever call them again — which would truly be a shame.

Nobody was hurt early Fri-day morning, which might be the silver lining in this whole mess, but RamRide needs to take a long, hard look at who they let volunteer and what can be done to prevent future transgressions.

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What did you do for the Super Bowl?

41% There was a football game?

29% Partied. 24% Watched at home. 6% Watched the Puppy

Bowl instead.

This is a good time to be gay in the USA

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I am a product of my mother’s choice, not yours

angelina Badali | COLLEGIAN

By CaleB hendriCh

By tyanna slOBe

“That is what choice is all about. To have the autonomy to make your own decisions regarding

your own body.”

Last Saturday, everyone’s favor-ite groundhog in Pennsylvania did not see his shad-ow, which means that winter is ending early this year. Spring is an especially notable time on campus, because the reli-gious people with

megaphones come out of hibernation to harass students into the arms of Jesus.

This year, I think that we are going to need to be extra prepared for their wrath and angry posters, because great things are finally happening for their least favorite community.

Gay people are getting rights!President Obama became the

only president ever to address LGBTQ issues in his inaugural address with his now famous quote, “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well.”

This probably seems like old news by now, but the statement is a very im-portant one that I believe will set the tone for the next four years. It certainly proved to set a progressive tone for the last few weeks. We are already mak-ing huge strides toward equality both socially and legally, and I expect that we will see a lot more progress in the near future.

It seems that President Obama

is really serious about this whole equality business too, because one of the first things that he did during his second term was vow to include same sex-couples in his proposal for addressing immigration reform.

Currently, foreign-born same-sex partners of Americans are not eligible for green cards, even if the couple is legally married at the state level. This means that many of the same people who fought for equal marriage rights in their home states are forced to leave the country to be with their partner. Should the President succeed in changing this discriminatory system, same-sex couples would be treated just like any other married couple when it comes to immigration.

The more the marry-er!But it’s not just adults that are

reaping the benefits of LGBTQ prog-ress. The Boy Scouts are debating to repeal their institutional ban on openly gay members and troop lead-ers. The organization came out with a statement last week saying that they are “actively considering” ending the ban, after more than 1 million people signed various petitions on Change.org, demanding that the Boy Scouts be inclusive to the gay community.

Here’s to hoping that one day soon no child will be denied the right to learn how to tie knots based on their sexual orientation.

Exciting things are happening closer to home as well in the form of a certain same-sex union bill. Colora-do’s Senate Bill 11 has already passed through the senate committee and is inching closer to becoming law — le-galizing same-sex unions in Colorado.

The bill is expected to continue all of the way to Governor Hickenlooper’s desk, due to overwhelming support from Democrats. The governor himself has been openly in favor of its passing.

SB-11 will gave same-sex couples many of the same legal rights that heterosexual married couples already enjoy, especially when it comes to medical issues and the right to adopt children together.

With all of this great news it might be easy to forget that we still have a lot of ground to cover before the journey to equality for our gay brothers and sisters truly is complete. There are still many legal obstacles that discriminate against same-sex couples across the country.

Openly gay children are still bullied in school. Civil unions are still not marriage. Transgendered, queer, and bisexual individuals still face a stagger-ing amount of discrimination. Addi-tionally, all of the issues that I mention in this article still need our support to become a reality at all.

Even so, we are undeniably on the right path for LGBTQ equality. This spring, when your peaceful walk across the plaza is disrupted by a hateful old guy yelling about how God will strike us down for supporting gay rights, you can feel a little safer. If civil unions in Colorado really do cause the apoca-lypse, we will have more Boy Scouts to teach us about survival skills.

Tyanna Slobe is a senior English Language and Spanish double major. Her column appears every Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and Feedback can be sent to [email protected].

At a recent CSU Best Buddies event, wherein the student organization’s offi cers were to be helpfully matched with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, I met a human miracle.

The event's proceedings were lighthearted, novel and granted much savory food for thought. I met colorful personalities who I previously never would’ve imag-ined. I learned to lend a more acute and receptive type of atten-

tion to the body language of social interlocutors. There was, among happy observances of getting-to-know-you exercises, an indistinct profundity lurking in the well-lit insides of our large gathering room.

After undergoing a series of warm social rituals with newly familiar people, I met a young man who astounded me. I won't reveal his name for his priva-cy's sake, though I'll inform you that he's my probable "buddy." I chose to converse with him just as I did with everyone else. He soon defi ed the quick, purely con-venient categorizations through which I can normally fi rst understand social interactions.

My buddy (which is the offi cial term for each of our IDD friends) is apparently affl icted with a mild form of autism. Yet what a beautiful affl iction this is. A simple conversation rewarded me with a shock to my precon-ceived notions. His memory was, to use a near-under-statement, beautifully prodigious. We spoke at length about video games and his plans to create his own video game.

I'm glad to be privileged with the opportunity to help in that effort. In between our continuous, joyous rounds of game fact reporting, he indirectly inspired me to push myself toward academic self-improve-ment. This may strike the reader as a bit random.

Permit me a clarifi cation. I’m not naturally en-dowed with such gorgeously focused information re-call as my buddy. I’ll exert myself toward new limits to learn well what I can. The simple conversation I held with my buddy lured a clueless me into sharpened mental acuity. This kind of a brain-fl ooding rush was utterly intoxicating.

Sometimes, one person’s obsession can galvanize a lazy person into grateful self-revolution. I was at the pedestrian’s end of this casually impressive spectacle, though I must also stress the importance of under-standing autism’s uniqueness. The seeming prevalence of what we often call “genius” in the autism-possessing community is something unfortunately misunder-stood by far too many people.

Not daring to succumb to romantic conclusions, I will instead put forth an interesting speculation from one of CSU's own professors, the famed Dr. Temple Grandin. To paraphrase her, with hopeful accuracy, milder forms of autism should survive while more se-vere forms are prevented; the unique benefi ts gleaned from the former type yield results which, arguably, couldn't have been produced (as effectively) in mild autism's absence.

A relevant CSU campaign, known as "Spread the Word to End the Word," advocates a personal renouncement of pejoratively using the “R-word” (retard/retarded). Hopefully this commitment will combine forces with a decision to prevent these verbal malignancies spread in other people.

In light of what you now know of my buddy, which is just one appreciable, unforeseen quality alive within just one individual with IDD, consider adopting this commitment to “end the word” yourself.

This is not to endorse self-censorship; I never will.I’m endorsing responsible speech (and writing).Temple Grandin once wrote with pithy strength, “I

am different, not less.”

Vivek Upadhyay is a freshman Education major. His columns appear every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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Spread the word, but not the ‘R’ word

Yays and NaysYAY | to Jessa Salvador. Her spirit and fi re for life should be an inspiration to us all.

NAY | to a RamRide driver putting people’s lives at risk. Driving under the infl uence is despicable enough, but doing it while volun-teering?

Yay | to Pierce Hornung for being the MW Player of the Week and bringing glory to the basketball team!

NAY | to the traffi c at the College Starbucks. We don’t have time to sit in traffi c; we need coffee!

YAY | to Beyonce and Destiny’s Child at the Super Bowl. The stars have fi nally aligned!

NAY | to Exams. Seriously? Already? The fi rst are the worst, because there are few buffer grades.

By VIVEK UPADHYAY

GUEST COLUMN FROM CSU PROVOST AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT RICK MIRANDA

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 |

An undergraduate or graduate degree from Colorado State Univer-sity has strong value as our students graduate and head out to start their careers. One of the ways some of our colleges work to build on that value is to recognize “Certifi cates of Completion,” which can help our alums show potential employers that they’ve focused on specifi c skills and topics.

The intention is to collect a suite of courses that have a co-herent theme and make students aware that our faculty believe in and recognize the additional value of taking the entire suite, over and above taking each course. These CoCs don’t show up on transcripts, but they refl ect real completed

coursework and achievement by our graduates.

The word “certifi cate” has recently come into question. It can have specifi c federal and state meanings, and regional accred-iting organizations — ours is the Higher Learning Commission— also provide guidance to institu-tions on its use. Is a “CoC” earned at CSU the same as the formal defi nition of “certifi cate” in federal and state policy or the certifi -cates offered at trade schools and community colleges? No — CSU’s certifi cates of course completion were never intended to mimic those defi nitions.

They are simply intended to help our students select intercon-

nected groups of courses and help our graduates show what they’ve accomplished and what value they offer as employees in the work-place.

Look on a CSU transcript and you won’t see the word “certif-icate.” CoCs here aren’t tran-scripted recognitions for under-graduates or graduates, it is the completed courses that are on the transcript.

There is an ongoing dis-cussion at the University, the Colorado Department of Higher Education, and the HLC about whether, and to what extent, CSU should consider making such CoCs formal and transcript-able, and if so what to call them.

We are moving forward first at the graduate level, and we are working with the University Cur-riculum Committee to establish guidelines and approval process-es for such graduate CoCs.

CSU is also working with the CDHE and the HLC to consid-er possible alternative terms or phrases — rather than “certifi cate” — that we could be authorized to use and transcript at the under-graduate level (e.g. “emphasis area,” “focus course suite,” etc.) The ability to identify areas of emphasis is important for our students; but our primary goals are clarity of the terms we use for academic credentials, compliance with accrediting standards and

meeting state and federal statutes. Graduate and undergraduate

students at CSU have earned the credits for completed coursework and degrees regardless of wheth-er some of the courses taken as part of their program of study are grouped under the umbrella of the more casual use of the phrase “certifi cate of completion.” This discussion does not change what appears on their transcript or what a student has accomplished. What’s most important is that we are as clear as possible when describing what a student learned in their time at CSU.

Rick Miranda, Provost and Executive Vice President of CSU.

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W hen was the last time you either read on a label or

were told by someone that a product contained something “natural?” It seems as though the terms “all natural”, “no artifi cial X or Y,” and, (arguably the worst) “no chemicals,” have become all the rage with people concerned about their

health and what they eat.The problem with this idea is that

chemicals themselves are completely nat-ural. This is why there is an entire branch of the natural sciences devoted to studying them — it’s called chemistry.

In spite of this, the smear campaign against the word “chemical” is so en-trenched in society that it has gotten to the point where people actively seek out these products. They genuinely believe that in being more natural or lacking synthetic chemicals, the product is better than every-thing else.

Chemicals make up everything. From the air we breathe to the water we drink, everything is a chemical.

One clever ruse employing the actual defi nition of a chemical entails mentioning something like dihydrogen monoxide.

This chemical is actually derived from a highly dangerous and highly reactive hydroxyl radical. This radical has been con-clusively proven to alter cell membranes, disrupt neurotransmitters, and even go so far as denaturing proteins (rendering them useless) and mutating DNA, the very fabric of life.

It’s not only the radical that can do this. The components of dihydrogen monoxide itself can be found in things like nitroglyc-erine (an explosive) and sulfuric acid (a highly caustic acid), among other things.

Sounds quite bad, doesn’t it? Well, the common name for this chemical is actu-ally water. Yep, water. “Di” means two and “mono” means one. Hence: dihydrogen monoxide (H2O).

With every chemical in nature, there’s a caveat. The same that applies to water applies to everything else. It’s true that water and what it’s made of can kill you quite easily. But so can any other naturally occurring chemical.

The one thing that most people don’t understand is that many of the medicines, food additives and even poisons that they know are made or at least derived from natural sources. The best medicines are usually the latest and greatest plant or fun-

gal extracts. Nature has this odd way of helping things live and also killing mercilessly.

Case in point: foxgloves. This group of plants is extremely poi-sonous, but a group of chemicals inside them that were extracted and purifi ed (cardiac glycosides) have been used to treat heart failure and cardiac issues.

Socrates probably wasn’t a big fan of the hemlock variety of plants, since it was used to execute him, yet its chemi-cals and extracts can be used as a sedative. Much more effective is oleander, which is so poisonous that even eating honey (organ-ic or not) produced by bees that digested oleander nectar can kill a person. And don’t get me started on arsenic. Talk about all-natural!

Just because it was synthesized in a lab doesn’t mean it’s not natural, either. As mentioned before, the extracts from any plant need to be purifi ed. The purifi cation in the lab leads to the creation of the drug or chemical compound. This has been done to get chemicals like aspirin and penicillin out of bark and fungi, respectively.

Great cancer-fi ghting pharmaceuticals have similar natural beginnings as well. The abridged list includes etoposide (from May apples), vinblastine and vincristine (from rosy periwinkles), and taxol (from yew leaves). Even pesticides (which are often frowned upon by many) are made from natural chemicals produced by plants to ward off insects.

As soon as we know the chemical in the plant, we can synthesize it ourselves (if it’s easier than extracting). And that’s alright, too. I’ll give you an example. Here are two chemicals that have the exact same structure … my question is, which one is synthetic and which is natural? C9H8O4 or C9H8O4? Considering the fact that they both look identical at a molecular level, your body doesn’t and can’t know the dif-ference.

“But then why purify it? Keep it nat-ural!” you say. Well, it’s purifi ed because these chemicals occur naturally at such low concentrations that they’re useless. Either that or, unless fi xed slightly, they can harm or kill you.

So, next time you hear someone men-tion the idea of “natural” over anything else, help them understand. They’re just misun-derstanding the science.

Rafael Rivero is a senior Zoology major. His columns appear every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

WHAT DOES ‘ALL NATURAL’ REALLY MEAN?

By RAFAEL RIVERO

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gown and restarted treat-ment.

At the request of CSU history professor Pam Knaus, a family friend, Jes-sa came to campus Monday evening and presented her story for an Honors seminar of about twenty students in Academic Village.

“Jessa always wanted to go to college, and this is at least an opportunity for her,” Knaus said.

A fi ve-and-a-half-year remission ended on Nov. 8, 2011, when Jessa was diag-nosed with a leukemia re-lapse.

“As her parents, we would give anything for her to not have to go through this again, but we will get her through it because there is no other option,” said Jen-nifer Salvador, her mother. “We all need Jessa in our lives, and she will battle through this because that is who she is and we all love her for that.”

“I don’t really think about what I have to go through –– I just do it so I can get on with my life,” Jessa said.

“I keep telling myself if it doesn’t make her cry, then I had better not cry either,” Jennifer said. “She is such a strong little girl, physically and emotionally and we are so thankful for her strength as we believe it will carry her through this to a cure.”

Siblings are usual-ly the closest bone mar-row match,but since Jessa’s brother, Blake, is not a match and no one else in her family is a compatible match, Jessa will be on a very aggressive, high dosage chemotherapy

for the next two years. If the chemotherapy stops working during her treatment or she relapses after two years of treatments, her only hope is to fi nd someone in the dona-tion registry for an unrelated marrow or stem cell donor.

“It is a much more dif-fi cult, longer process when (the donor) is unrelated so this was sad news to hear for all of us, and especially for her sweet, loving brother who wanted to be that life line for his sister,” Jennifer said.

Seventy percent of pa-tients needing a bone mar-row transplant do not have a matching family donor, and 10,000 patients per year rely on a transplant from some-one outside their family.

“Sometimes I replay the outcome percentage the doctor reviewed with us in my head and I just have to stop this and believe with my heart and soul, she will be one of the kids that makes it,” Jennifer said. “It is just paralyzing to think anything else.”

Since Jessa’s relapse with leukemia in Nov. 2011, her family has bonded.

“I think one of the big-gest challenges a parent fac-

es is trying to remain strong because not only are you try-ing to do what you do to get through your day but you’re trying to be a strong infl u-ence for your family and show some guidance,” Dar-ren said. “I think sometimes that’s the biggest challenge for me is just trying to make sure I’m positive around them.”

Students attending her presentation were im-pressed with Jessa’s strong spirit even more than her personal story.

“It put a name with a face. You hear about people get-ting sick and getting leuke-mia or needing transplants a lot, but you never really think about what they like to do or how old they might be,” said Jenni Robinson, freshman bi-ology major.

Jessa’s story hit home for Emily Janik, another student in Knaus’s class, because a girl in her high school had leukemia and passed away last year in her junior year of high school.

“I just hope for a better outcome for Jessa,” Janik said.

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

JESSA | Spirit inspires family, class of CSU Honors students


River Ventures and according to University Art Museum di-rector and curator Linny Fric-kman, the couple was very interested in the can’s state.

“The donors were on campus with President Frank when they saw the can,” Frickman said. “They love contemporary art and are collectors and when they saw the can they of-fered to donate the funds for its restoration.”

Frickman worked with the Martins’ representative, Dianne Vanderlip, former curator of modern and con-temporary art at the Den-

ver Art Museum, to fi nd the best restorer for the can.

Vanderlip chose Mark Rossi, founder of HAND-MADE, located in Los An-geles. Rossi has worked with art luminaries Claes Olden-burg and Charles Ray, and is going to pay close attention to Andy Warhol’s signature, which is on the can.

The soup can was one of three pieces created in collaboration with Warhol for the “Warhol at Colora-do State University” exhib-it. Warhol signed the can upon its arrival at the art building on Sept. 1, 1981. It was placed on the UCA lawn Sept. 29, 2008 after

it resided on Department of Art lawn until the late 1980s.

According to Tony Phifer, senior writer for the division of external relations, the 30-year-old piece is an “icon-ic piece” of the UCA. The can is part of the University Art Museum’s larger sculptural plan, which is planning on adding a new architectur-al addition to the museum which would incorporate more outdoor sculptures.

The sculpture is sched-uled to be removed at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Senior Reporter Sean Meeds can be reached at [email protected].

CAMPBELL | Donors to fund work

The Campbell’s Tomato Soup can from his

1981 exhibit at CSU sits outside of the University

Center for the Arts Monday.

The 11 foot high soup can will

be temporarily removed for restoration.

ERIN MROSS | COLLEGIAN

“We all need Jessa in our lives, and she will battle through this because that is who she is

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situation in the past. We don’t, if there is anybody who we suspect to be un-der the influence of drugs or alcohol; we do not allow them in the car,” said ASC-SU President Regina Martel. “They sign, not a waiver, but a policy of ours, that says they will not operate a car while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. We try to screen our volunteers as much as possible. We can’t control what every single person does.”

Duran added that the on-site RamRide direc-tor had been attempt-ing to reach the driver when RamRide operations stopped at 2 a.m. and the university-owned vehicles are turned in.

Austin O’Neil, the Ram-Ride director in charge Thursday night, then con-tacted the navigator on his personal cell phone, when the navigator informed O’Neil he had left the vehi-cle and the driver had been arrested.

O’Neil declined to com-

ment about the incident.Shortly afterward, a

CSUPD officer came into the RamRide office to tell O’Neil what to do about the RamRide vehicle. In most

cases, the vehicle would be impounded, but since it had government plates, the offi-cer gave O’Neil a ride back to the vehicle, who was then able to return it to the uni-versity motor pool.

Friday morning, ASCSU notified CSU administration of what happened.

“As far as RamRide pol-icies and procedures and emergency protocol, we followed everything that’s in emergency protocol,” Duran said. That protocol includes notifying the di-rector on call –– who was Martel the night of the in-cident –– and filling out an incident report.

“I just want to stress that this is an isolated inci-dent, and the actions of one shouldn’t negatively affect everyone,” Duran said.

While not commenting on the RamRide volunteers pulled over by campus po-lice, CSU Student Legal Services Director Kathleen Harward said it is difficult to say which legal penalties may arise from charges such as speeding, possession of marijuana, possession of

marijuana paraphernalia and DUIs.

Past offenses, the age of the offender and other dis-cretionary topics alter the penalty, Harward said.

Senior Reporter Aus-tin Briggs can be reached at [email protected]. Senior Reporters Kate Sim-mons, Sean Meeds, ASCSU Beat Reporter Skyler Leon-ard and News Editor An-drew Carrera contributed to this report.

Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013

9Cars in opera-tion

137Patronsgiven rides

51Rides given

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Friday, Feb. 1, 2013

19Cars in opera-tion


163Rides given

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013

19Cars in opera-tion


186Rides given

178,492Total rides given through RamRide program

Source: The Associated Students of CSU Department of RamRide

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