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Tuesday, January 22, 2013Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 121 | No. 85

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Keith Richards

At a concert in 1981, a crazed fan got on stage and made a beeline for Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger. Having none of this, Keith Richards proceeded to whack the fan over the head with his guitar.

Greatest Ways to Deal with

Disruptions

By KATE WINKLE, BAILEY CONSTAS and EMILY SMITHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Editor’s note: The follow-ing interviews were conducted before the 2012-2013 Winter Break.

In 2003, CSU’s minor-ity students represented 11.4 percent of the student body. By fall 2012, that number in-creased to 15.6 percent. The uptick in underrepresented persons’ enrollment at CSU is good for the university, but there is still room for improve-ment, according to Mary Onti-veros, CSU vice president for diversity.

“We are more diverse than we’ve ever been,” Ontiveros said. “Are we as diverse as per-haps we should be? Probably not. It would be nice to have more of that kind of diversity on campus.”

With the help of campus of-fi cials, the Collegian analyzed the enrollment of racially and ethnically diverse students in each of CSU’s eight colleges and intra-university program.

In 2003, 15.8 percent of stu-dents in the College of Veteri-nary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were minorities, mak-ing it the most diverse at the time. The least diverse was the Warner College of Natural Re-sources, whose student body was 6.8 percent minority.

The College of Natural Sci-ences is currently the most di-verse on campus. About 19.4 percent of its students are mi-norities. The Warner College of Natural Resources continues to be the least diverse at CSU, as it has been for seven of the past nine years. In 2012, just 9.5 percent of its students were minorities.

College of Agricultural Sciences2003: 7.2 percent were

minorities2012: 11 percent were

minoritiesNine-year change: 3.9

percent increaseDiversity in the College of

Agricultural Sciences is gradu-ally increasing and is following CSU’s diversity mission plan to grow the college’s minority

See DIVERSITY on Page 8

The color of campusNine-year diversity trends broken down by college

AkonRapper Akon had the unfor-tunate experi-ence of having a hot dog � ung at him during an event. Rather than wait for security, Akon invited the man on stage, and hurled him from it with gusto.

Bill MaherEvery come-dian has their limits when it comes to heckling. For Bill Maher, that came when his show was in� l-trated by 9/11 Truthers. A� er repeated inter-ruptions from the individual in the crowd, Maher forcibly removed the man from the crowd himself. Mr. President, are you taking notes?

Collegian Staff Report

On Monday, CSU students and the Fort Collins community joined together in solidarity and marched through their city in honor of the man who stood for justice just 60 years ago: Martin Luther King Jr.

“This afternoon we gather to recognize a great leader, but we also gather as a thousand faces of all ages and col-ors and experiences, as a community of people united by that believe in that underlying dream,” said CSU President Tony Frank at the beginning of the program that followed the march, according to the Loveland Reporter-Herald. “Freedom is ours, to keep or to lose. It's been one for all of us through the sacrifi ces for all of us but today we must all be champions, and it's in that spirit that we marched this afternoon.”

The march started at 1 p.m. and continued with a pre-sentation of the winner of the Poudre School District essay and poetry contest at 1:45 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Main Ballroom, according to a university news release.

“Over the years, the walk has had different iterations including ending in downtown with live celebrations,” said Peggy Lyle of the Downtown Business Association. “And for at least the last fi ve years it kicks off in Old Town Square and concludes on the CSU campus.”

A volunteer fair followed, encouraging community members to participate in making Fort Collins greater together. Attendees were bussed back to Old Town for free.

“Downtown Fort Collins is very proud to host the start of this march, which signifi es such a positive demonstra-tion of our community,” Lyle said.

Caitlin Johnson, a junior nutrition major, agreed.“I think it’s important to honor a great man,” Johnson

said.The Collegian Staff can be reached at news@collegian.

com.

Hundreds of Fort Collins community members marched from Old Town Square to the LSC plaza in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. and to advocate for human rights. Participants of the march wore “MLKJr.” stickers and carried signs illuminating their appreciation for the signifi cant work done by Martin Luther King Jr. for the freedom of all people.

MADISON BRANDT | COLLEGIAN

Marching for the dream

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Jan. 15, 1929. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a national holiday on Nov. 3, 1983, but

didn’t start until 1986. This year was the 23rd MLK Day. The holiday became a day of service on Aug. 23, 1994.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. FACTS

Nancy York, a CSU 1960 Alumni, joined hundreds of Fort Collins community members marching from Old Town Square to the LSC plaza in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. York has been a strong advocator for humans rights her whole life, and was excited to partipate in this event.

MADISON BRANDT | COLLEGIAN

REWIND: CSU BASKETBALL OVER WINTER BREAK

TIME TO RAM UP

SPORTS | PAGE 10NEWS | PAGE 6

SPEAK NOWDEBATE UNION FORMS AT CSU

SPEAK NOWDEBATE UNION FORMS AT CSUNEW DIRECTOR,

NEW DIRECTION

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Four More for No. 44

U.S. President Barack Obama waves during the presidential inaugu-ration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday in Washing-ton, DC. Read the full story inside on page 12.

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By ANDREW CARRERAThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

CSU basketball games

just became easier to attend.According to an email

from Tim Brogdon, director of Ram Ruckus, students can buy tickets to men’s and women’s games three days in advance at Moby Arena or online at www.ramruckus.colostate.edu for an extra $2.

Brogdon wrote that the university isn’t making any money from the $2 fee, which is an added charge put in place by their ticketing company.

“I think it’s one of the best

things that I’ve seen the tick-eting department do,” said Taylor Jackson, director of student services for the As-sociated Students of CSU, whose department is helping CSU athletics advertise its new policy.

Jackson explained that it makes ticket purchasing for basketball games more simi-lar to the system in place for football games, where stu-dents can easily buy vouch-ers in the days leading up to the game.

With basketball, she said, students had far more diffi -culty getting tickets.

The arena also recently

created a new student en-trance on its south side.

“This entrance will serve students much better as all student initiatives and pro-mos will be through this en-trance,” Brogdon wrote.

“I think it’s fun when you’re all going in the same area. You’re all yelling and getting excited as you go in –– it fun-nels you right into the student section,” she said.

Ram Ruckus is a student spirit group that launched in June 2012, according to the Rams Athletics offi cial website.

News Editor Andrew Car-rera can be reached at [email protected].

Tickets available three days in advance, onlineCSU BASKETBALL

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Undeclared Freshman Sarah Longi talks on the phone as she walks past the construction area for the Lory Student Center Sunday evening. Due to the construction, the MAC gym in the Recreation Center will be closed from February to Fall 2014 to accommodate the relocation of administrative offices.

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Community Briefs

‘Comic Potential’ performances Jan. 31-Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m.

CSU’s Theatre Program presents “Comic Poten-tial,” the romantic sci-fi by award-winning writer Sir Alan Ayckbourn, an Olivi-er and Tony Award winning playwright who’s written 77 plays, which have been produced and performed around the world.

Tickets are $8 for CSU students and youth under the age of 17, and $18 for the public, and are available at the University Center for the Arts Ticket Office in the UCA Griffin Lobby, by phone at (970)-491-2787 or online. CSU students get in free on Ticket Thursdays: Jan. 31 and Feb. 7.

Performances are Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m. All performances will be held in the Studio The-atre at the University Center of the Arts, 1400 Remington Street.

SPARC presents annual updates on Jan. 23

All members of the Colorado State University community are welcome to attend the annual pre-sentation of the Strategic Planning Area Review Com-mittees (SPARC ) on Jan. 23, from 8 a.m. to noon in the Cherokee Park Ballroom, Lory Student Center, as part of CSU’s strategic planning and budgeting process.

Chairs from SPARC will all present updates from their specific areas, includ-ing CSU 2020 and Infra-structure SPARC, Research and Discovery SPARC, Di-versity SPARC, Engagement/Outreach SPARC, Teaching and Learning SPARC, and Faculty/Staff Development SPARC. The presentation will set the stage for the Uni-versity budget retreat also in the Cherokee Park Ballroom on Jan. 30.

-- Collegian staff report

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Big changes are in store for RamRide this semester. Potential changes include: a restructuring of the depart-ment, a new dispatch system, a smaller fl eet of vehicles, decreased wait times and a smaller volunteer force, ac-cording to new RamRide di-rector Chelsey Green.

“We will really focus on effi ciency of RamRide,” Green said. “We want to cut down wait times and really streamline the whole de-partment.”

Green also plans to im-plement a strategic action plan to try to secure funding for a new dispatch system which will assign cars to rides based on a GPS sys-tem.

“Right now I am in the process of meeting with Re-gina and the RamRide ad-visory board,” Green said. “We are working to hope-fully partner up with other campus organizations, and eventually get into testing some new technology at the end of this semester.”

According to ASCSU President Regina Martel, the action plan will also help the department more easily por-tray its core purpose.

“It’ll help us defi ne val-ues we are not willing to compromise on,” Martel

said. “This might include always making it a safe ride home, never to a party, and always having the program be completely student-run.”

This semester could also bring an organization-al overhaul to the RamRide department, according to Martel.

“We will be complete-ly restructuring it,” Martel said. “We will be examining things like if we have too many staff members or not enough, but Chelsey is defi -nitely going to be key to this semester.”

Martel also hopes an era of stability will be brought along with Green.

“It helps that she is a ju-nior and so she has the pos-sibility to re-apply for the position for next year,” said Martel. “That way she will be able to introduce big ideas and carry them through sev-eral semesters.”

As for personal goals, Green hopes to implement new volunteer appreciation programs for RamRide vol-unteers.

“A lot of our volunteers are Greek organizations,”

Green said. “We would love to maybe create an event for them, like a theme event, where volunteers can dress up and have fun. It will add more excitement and make it fun.”

Martel hopes to follow through with these chang-

es and is confi dent Green will pave the way towards a new and improved Ram-Ride. Most of all, she said, she hopes these changes are here to stay.

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

Lean, mean, RamRide machine

A new dispatch system Decreased wait times Volunteer appreciation events New means of funding

POSSIBLE CHANGES

Newly appointed RamRide Director Chelsey Green stands outside of the the program’s offi ce Sunday afternoon. One of Green’s plans for RamRide is to im-pliment a new dispatch system which will in turn decrease wait times for users.

HUNTER THOMPSON | COLLEGIAN

ASCSU

“We want to cut down wait times and really streamline the whole department.”Chelsea Green | RamRide Director

New director promises to reform department, including hosting theme parties

The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3

Being a refl ection of the student pop-ulation we repre-sent and are staffed by, CSU students. Every semester, we at the Collegian are constantly seeking ways to be innova-tive and reinvent ourselves, learning and growing both as individuals and

collectively as an organization that is here to serve you, our reader.

After spending the fall semester on the east coast working as a designer for The Boston Globe, I’m excited to be back at CSU to fi nish my degree and serve as the editor in chief of this pub-lication, spearheading the next chapter in the history of this 121-year-old CSU campus staple.

This semester you’ll see some changes in these pages –– the most noticeable coming Friday when the paper will become half its normal size and turn into a new and improved weekender edition.

Yes, the weekender is nothing new, but the new look we’re going for will give off a more student-centric vibe, and through the complete redesign I’m hoping it brings more stories and

entertainment to your fi ngertips. This semester I hope that we not

only bring you a guide to weekend entertainment, but also give you the news that is essential to you as stu-dents on this campus.

We will be continuing to follow the construction on campus and keep you up to speed on everything that is happening with the Lory Student Center reconstruction. Turn to our pages or visit Collegian.com for up-dates on when and where construction may start affecting your daily life on campus.

I also understand that we do not live in a bubble called CSU and there-fore we will be covering as much Fort Collins news that we can. I’m commit-ted to making sure that if your life will be affected, you’ll see the story from us — whether that means something in the city, state or even national stories.

Some of the news stories that we will cover this semester might start a deeper conversation. It’s because of this that it is my goal to open up page four, and, in Tuesday’s paper, page fi ve, for commentary and conversation, en-gaging with and sharing the collective voice of the student community.

CSU’s student voice is usually belting when it comes to athletics. Our sports staff will be following the

CSU basketball teams through the rest of their season, providing previews, coverage and features of our teams and best players. As basketball season comes to a close, we’ll continue to cov-er all of CSU’s other great Division-1 sports teams, and stories from our numerous club sports teams as well.

And on top of all of that, we have a staff of photographers and designers that are excited to capture moments and break down information so that it’s easier and quicker for you to under-stand, building a look, style and feel that is distinctly representative of this campus and university.

So, I’m making a commitment to you. I’m committing to serve as a platform for the voice of students at Colorado State University. I’m commit-ting to share stories from CSU and Fort Collins that you, as readers, deserve.

I have an amazingly talented team of editors, reporters, photographers and designers that are passionate and ready to share CSU’s stories with you. I hope that you’ll engage with us and let us know when you’re happy, angry, entertained or down-right pissed off.

Editor in chief Greg Mees is a senior journalism major. His column appears occasionally in the Collegian. He can be reached at [email protected].

Anyone remember a few months ago when the whole of the United States was agog with the idea that Puerto Rico voted to become the 51st state? Well, is anyone wondering what actually came of it? Fear not, I’m here to help.

Being a native Puerto Rican myself, the moment when the voting was reported by newspapers and magazines in the United States, my friends went crazy and bombarded me with questions. “Did you hear?

What do you think? Will it happen? Is it true?”The only question that actually made me think was

the last one — is it true?Honestly, I was completely at a loss; so I called my

parents and asked them. They said the vote had been re-ported on correctly (if a tad misleadingly, but we’ll get to that) and then they added that the incumbent governor had been ousted by a member of the Popular Democrat-ic Party (PPD). Now that was interesting. But to under-stand why, we have to go into some political history.

In 1898, the Spanish-American War came to a close and, like a hand-me-down, Puerto Rico was passed from Spain to the United States (with Guam and the Phil-ippine Islands) via the Treaty of Paris for a measly $20 million. Soon afterwards, Puerto Ricans were granted cit-izenship under the Jones-Shafroth Act, even though the entire Puerto Rican House of Delegates voted against it.

Federal Law No. 81-600, which Harry S. Truman signed on July 3, 1950, after decades of military rule, afforded Puerto Ricans the right to draft a constitution to set up a functioning government.

The new Constitution was ratifi ed on July 3, 1952, and Puerto Rico became what is known as an Estado Libre Asociado. After this status (referred to in English as a Commonwealth even though it translates to Free Associated State) was created, the politics in Puerto Rico changed.

In the United States, people largely vote based on if they are liberal or conservative. In Puerto Rico, however, people largely vote based on the political status of the island. The major political parties include: the PPD, who want the island to remain an Estado Libre Asociado; the PNP (New Progressive Party), who want the island to become a state; and the PIP (Puerto Rican Independence Party), who want the island to become independent.

As is to be expected, whenever the PNP party is in control, they’ll attempt to have an island-wide vote on the status. You’re given three choices: Status Quo, State-hood, or Independence. Throughout the years, this has gone off without a hitch. The Status Quo has always won out. That is, until November 2012.

This time, the PNP politicians had another plebiscite and, somehow, the status question went from a more-or-less even split down the middle to a whopping 61 percent vote in favor of statehood. That’s already statis-tically iffy based on the history of the vote. Coupled with the fact that the PPD beat the PNP in the election cycle essentially across the board (including in the gubernato-rial race), it’s enough to leave people like me wondering what’s going on.

It turns out that the status ballot had been changed drastically. Instead of the usual ballot, this one had two questions: 1) Do you agree that Puerto Rico should continue with its current status? Yes/No. 2) Ignore the previous question and select which non-territorial status you’d prefer: Statehood, Independence, Free Associated Sovereign State.

Now that’s confusing.Not only that, but the PPD had also asked for people

to leave the second question blank as a way to protest it. Those blank ballots weren’t originally included in the reporting, which led to the 61 percent number.

But, if the 480,918 ballots left in blank are added onto the votes for “Yes” in the fi rst question (as per the PPD’s political outlook), then the actual vote looks more like this: Happy with the current status? 57.5 percent YES and 42.5 percent NO. And, if added to Free Associated Sovereign State (which the PPD also endorsed and, if you recall, is an almost identical translation of Estado Libre Asociado): On non-territorial status? 45 percent for Statehood. 51 percent for Free Associated Sovereign State, and 4 percent for Independence. These values are the lowest it has ever been.

All of this analysis is unnecessary anyway, as Con-gress has already decided that the vote was a sham. They have effectively decided to not pay attention to the non-binding referendum and simply let Puerto Rico be.

So, in answering the initial question: is it true? I’m going with no.

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]

While it’s great to have a three-day weekend, we should remember the reason for its oc-currence. It’s not just one more day of guiltless video gaming be-fore class starts up again; it sig-nifi es a major shift in the Unit-ed States’ standard on human rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader, but also a person who believed in what future generations could accom-plish.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the color of your skin impacted your daily life, the opportunities you could have and the things you could achieve. Even now, we are not yet a post-racial so-ciety, and it’s not a destination to be reached and then forgot-ten about. We must remember

every day to fi ght for our rights and those of others. As members

of the future generation and the voice thereof, it’s our duty to use the power we have today to grant

the people of tomorrow the free-doms they deserve.

Even here at CSU, we have the possibility of a cure for can-cer, engineers and researchers that could save us from climate change, and new teachers that will help cultivate the minds of students for generations to come. We can not accomplish these goals, however, without re-membering what Martin Luther King, Jr. was striving for: equal opportunity and love. We cer-tainly won’t get anywhere if over half the population is stymied in their efforts by baseless preju-dice.

As President Obama said yesterday during his inaugural speech, “Our journey is not com-plete.”

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Letter submissions are open to all and are printed on a fi rst-received basis. Submissions should be limited to 250 words and need to include the author’s name and contact information. Anonymous letters will not be printed. E-mail letters to [email protected]

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |

OUR VIEW

Still dreaming, but not resting

The Collegian Editorial Board is responsible for writing the staff editorial, “Our View,” and for the views expressed therein. Letters and feedback in response to the staff editorial can be sent to [email protected].

Greg Mees | Editor in [email protected]

Kevin Jensen | Content Managing [email protected]

Hunter Thompson | Visual Managing [email protected]

Andrew Carrera | News [email protected]

Emily Smith | News [email protected]

Caleb Hendrich | Editorial [email protected]

Emily Kribs | Entertainment [email protected] Kyle Grabowski | Sports Editor

[email protected] Lawan | Design Editor

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“It wasn’t all that long ago that the color of your skin

impacted your daily life, the opportunities you could have and the things you could

achieve.”

This is an unscientifi c poll conducted at Collegian.com and refl ects the opinions of the Internet users who have chosen to participate.

YOUR TWO CENTS

*56 people voted in this poll.

YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:

TODAY’S QUESTION:What are you most excited about for this semester?

Log on to http://collegian.com to give us your two cents.

What did you do over break?

23% Gained 10 pounds. 23% Nothing at all. 22% Hooked up with an ex. 16% Traveled. 16% Visited family.

A commitment to community journalism

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Fact checking Puerto Rico’s statehood

ANGELINA BADALI | COLLEGIAN

“So, I’m making a commitment to you. I’m committing to serve as a platform for the voice of students at Colorado State University. I’m

committing to share stories from CSU and Fort Collinsthat you, as readers, deserve. ”

By GREG MEES

By RAFAEL RIVERO

In the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, this nation found itself locked once again in the circle of sadness, anger and confusion that follows mass shootings. Once again, this nation found itself asking itself what could be done to prevent another such shooting from happening again.

Predictably, solutions began to fall along the traditional gun-rights/gun-control lines.

The National Rifle Association, however, identified a different culprit: violent video games.

NRA Chairman Wayne LaPierre stated, “There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people, through vicious, violent video games."

You may as well assume that anyone who picks up a video game instantly transforms into a crazed murderer.

As a gamer myself, I can tell you the notion that playing a violent video game makes someone more violent is false, plain and simple. It can cause of a lot of other problems (such as self-entitlement, addiction, and obesity) definitely, but certainly not violence.

For one thing, there is no correlation between playing videogames and violence. A study conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime tracked the consump-tion of video games against the number of gun-related murders in those countries. The country that purchased and consumed the most video games was the Nether-lands, which has very few gun deaths. The United States purchased significantly lower games, but had the highest number of gun deaths.

The trend goes downwards, rather than upwards, which indicates that there is no correlation between murdering someone with a gun and playing a video game.

I, personally, find the notion that I am incapable from telling fiction from reality insulting. Killing in fic-tion is a far different scenario that killing in reality. In fiction, there are not any penalties for shooting another player. I know that game characters are not living things, much less another person.

The adrenaline rush from the “Fight-or-Flight” instinct is gone. The fear of a painful death and the “survive at all costs” drive is also gone. Holding and using a controller is just not equivalent to holding a gun.

Of course, you do not have to take my word for it. If you feel that video games make you more violent, then you are free to abstain from them. As with all forms of media, there is no law mandating that you participate. If you do not want to, then you do not have to.

For parents worried about the potential influence of video games on their kids, the solution is even simpler: Don’t let them play them. Believe it or not, this is some-thing that the video game industry takes fairly seriously. After complaints in the early 1990’s about the potential impact of violent games like “Mortal Kombat” on children, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board was created. The ESRB then came up with a rating system for games. These ratings range from Everyone to Adults Only, allowing parents to know which games are appropriate for their kids to be playing.

This is the what my parents did. I was first intro-duced to video games in the mid 1990’s, and from then on in my experience with them was rigidly controlled and enforced. I was allowed to play my first “T” rated game when I was 13. I was not allowed to touch games that were rated “M” until I was 17. I did not end up play-ing first person shooters until I had left home to go to CSU. That’s how the ESRB rating system should work.

If a parent does not want their kid to be playing “Call of Duty”, then that parent should be exercising their authority and taking the game away from their kid. In the parent-child relationship, the parent has all of the power, not the other way around.

Playing video games does not cause violence. Ban-ning them, or using them as a scapegoat for violence in America is a waste of time, effort, and will not keep children safe.

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

I spent my winter break in South America, hanging out and traveling with friends that I met when I stud-ied abroad in Santiago, Chile. Spanish is the only

language that I speak other than English, and I am especially at-tentive to all of the intonations, dialects and vocabulary of the language that I have only recently learned.

Despite the amount of time that I have spent in Santiago, Chilean Spanish never ceases to amaze me. My friends drop words and phrases into their everyday language that I would never dream of using in English because they are things that I would consider classist, racist, sexist and homophobic. Returning to Chile over break was a shocking reminder of how uncomfortable this sort of language makes me.

One day a friend was telling me a story about how he was trying to get to the airport to meet someone but didn’t have a cell phone so he couldn’t and he felt dumb. He referred to himself in the situation as being “muy indio,” or very Indian, very Native American.

I told him that referring to himself in a situation where he did not have any technology and felt idiotic as a result as “Native American” seemed to me like a racist statement, given the mar-ginalization of Native Americans all over the Americas.

We got into an argument and he told me that I didn’t get it because I am not Chilean and I do not understand the ways of their language and culture.

A few days later I uploaded pictures to Facebook from my friend’s Pink Floyd cover band show. In one of the pictures I was scantily dressed, dripping in sweat, my tongue was hanging out and I was giving the rock ‘n’ roll signal. Someone left a com-ment on the picture that read, “white trash.”

“White trash” is something that people refer to each other as all of the time for looking and acting like I was in that picture. “White trash” is a fairly normal term in our language –– everyone knows what it means and many people think that it is a funny thing to call someone.

Over the next few days, I started thinking about it more and more and what exactly “white trash” means.

Generally, the term connotes an image of poor people. People who live in low income housing. People who come from low income

families that have higher rates of al-coholism, addiction and domestic violence. People who do not have access to quality public education or higher education. People who do not have access to healthcare. People who are extremely margin-alized in American society.

“White trash” by definition also has to do with race. The phrase refers to Caucasians who are considered “less than” a stereotypical middle class white person –– hence “trash.” “White trash” links certain white people with people of color who are also often considered by society as being “less than” the stereo-typical middle class white person, suggesting that the worst thing a white person could do is fall into the same socio-economic category as people of color have historically filled in the U.S.

In their respective contexts, like those mentioned above, the terms “indio” and “white trash” are very classist and racist. They’re also very normal Spanish and English words, to the extent that it is difficult for an insider to recognize the social context of their referents.

My friend wasn’t right when he said that I do not know enough about Spanish and Chilean culture to understand why “indio” in that context was a racist and classist comment. In fact, I understand exactly what it meant. However, I think that he was onto something. I am too much of an outsider to the language to have that sort of statement seem normal and inoffensive.

It is far more difficult to notice the harmful and degrading nu-ances that are normalized in your native language. It is an inter-esting idea, though, to look at English in its social context from an outsider’s perspective.

What kinds of things do we say everyday that feed into racist, classist, sexist, homophobic and other divides –– the ones that help maintain a status quo? What kinds of things do we inadver-tently say every day that reinforce discourses about marginalized groups being “different,” “less than,” “weird,” or “other?” Who exactly is benefiting from this sort of language being normalized, and why do we allow such racist and classist things like “white trash” exist as normal and harm-less comments?

I think that taking a step back and looking at the language that we use from an outsider’s perspective would yield shocking results similar to my own surprise at my Chilean friend’s language.

Tyanna Slobe is a senior Eng-lish and Spanish double major. Her column appears Tuesdays in the Collegian. Letters and Feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |

In defense of video games

Yays and NaysYaY | to the Inauguration. For the second time in a row we’ve seen

history in the making.

NaY | to break ending. Somehow, five whole weeks just doesn’t

seem like enough time.

Yay | to hockey returning. Now that the Broncos have broken our

hearts, it’s up to the Avs to try and pull out a win for Colorado!

NaY | to flu season. Seriously, as if Mother Nature hasn’t tortured us

enough already this winter.

YaY | to Syllabus Week. Shorter classes with no homework is okay

with us!

NaY | to the Student Center renovations. The Skellar is closing

soon, where are we supposed to drink on campus?

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By Alex BeyerThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

CSU’s new Speech and Debate Union, established in September, is eager to welcome new members –– students who revel in argu-ments and gawk at presiden-tial debates.

“We started the Debate Union at CSU because we had a sincere belief that an institution as great and pres-tigious as our school need-ed a team,” said Ian Ingra-ham, the group’s president. “Moreover, our belief in the value of speech and debate led us to believe our fellow students could benefit from the establishment of our union.”

Rather than focus on the more traditional policy debate, the union places an

emphasis on parliamentary debate.

The style doesn’t allow for written evidence during a competition, unlike other forms of debate, forcing de-baters to rely on their own knowledge to contrive com-pelling arguments on the spot.

Team meetings run ev-ery Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Spring Creek Room in the Lory Student Center. Meetings will consist of debate practice rounds and discussions on debate theory to give students a bet-ter grasp on the fundamen-tals of argumentation.

The team plans on par-ticipating in four local tour-naments this semester.

The group covers topics from affirmative action to American involvement in

Syria.“To anyone consider-

ing a degree in law, public speaking, business, or high level corporate enterprises, all will in some way require a degree of public speaking, along with critical thinking that I feel no club or activity offers such as debate,” Ingra-ham said.

The team is open to stu-dents of all skill levels. De-bate coach Carl Wangsvick has 25 years of coaching ex-perience at Fort Collins high schools and has sent many of his students to national competitions.

“Out of any of the activi-ties students may participate in at CSU, debate certainly offers distinct advantages that other clubs may not of-fer,” Ingraham said.

Wangsvick has high

hopes for the Speech and Debate Union despite the fact that this is the team’s first year.

“Given that there is commitment to the activ-ity and that CSU will be in local, not national compe-tition for a while, and that CSU looks to have some people experienced at the national level both in competing and in coach-ing, I expect good results,” Wangsvick said.

Wangsvick added that those students with experi-ence can do well to start and the rest will improve a lot by the end of the term.

“There are no downsides to debating, win or lose,” Wangsvick said.

Collegian Writer Alex Beyer can be reached at [email protected].

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Junior Ian Ingraham, Debate Club president, practices topics with coach and advisor Alex Ried Monday afternoon in the Lory Student Center. The Debate Club is a new student organization that will compete and represent CSU in national tournaments.

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By Cassandra WhelihanThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The year 2012 was con-

firmed as the warmest year on record. Have rising tem-peratures had significance in the lack of snowfall this year, and what does the lack of snow mean for Colorado?

“It meant a slow start to the 2012-2013 winter recre-ation season, and a bunch of nervous urban and agricul-tural water managers con-cerned about the coming irrigation season — spring and summer,” Professor No-lan Doesken, state climatol-ogist at the Colorado Climate Center and professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at CSU, wrote in an email to the Collegian.

“In Northern Colorado we are at 25 to 89 percent of the normal (30 year average) snowfall, as of January,” said Steven Fassnacht, a profes-sor in the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science.

“The Cache la Poudre is at 70 to 89 percent, but other nearby areas have less snow; the headwaters of the South Platte have less than 50 per-cent,” Fassnacht said.

According to Doesken, December snows were enough to blanket the west-ern and southern mountain valleys of Colorado, resulting in a mid-winter freeze.

“Heat and drought go hand in hand during the summer months, but that association is more com-plicated during the winter,” Doesken said. “What heat does do — and we saw that clearly in 2012 — is hasten the melt of our mountain snowpack.”

“Last year, considerable amounts of snow were already gone by later March weeks

before the high mountain snow melt usually begins,” Doesken said. “That means an earlier and longer wildfire season. It also means the po-tential for higher evapotrans-piration rates.”

Colorado is home to five million people who rely on snowmelt to survive. Warming temperatures cause the snow-pack in the mountains to melt earlier in the season, leading to more of the water being evaporated back into the at-mosphere and less water ac-cumulation in the reservoirs.

“Two things: One is you could have more or less snow-fall out of the sky but the other thing is really the warming is more about how much of that snowpack winds up getting into the reservoirs and staying in the reservoirs,” said Scott Denning, professor in the CSU Department of Atmo-spheric Science.

“If it’s a lot warmer more of the snow will evaporate or melt and run off earlier so it doesn’t fill the reservoirs in the spring,” Denning said.

As the climate warms, the result is less water even if there isn’t less snow because the extra warming evapo-rates the water before it ever gets to us.

“Last year was a poor snowpack year and it was very warm,” Denning said. “But the year before that was a huge snowpack year.”

Denning went on to re-late that in the future, “it’s going to get warmer because of all the extra CO2 and that will tend to melt and evapo-rate more of the snow before it gets into our reservoirs.”

Although winter is still upon us, the chance of reaching an average water accumulation by spring is becoming less likely.

“We're only at about the halfway point of the winter snow accumulation season now, but in terms of water

supply, we're far enough below average, only about 60 percent of average state-wide, that the chances of recovery to normal by April when our high elevation snowpack usually reaches its maximum water content are now slim — one chance in 10,” Doesken said.

One look at Horsetooth Reservoir and the impact of last year’s dry, hot climate becomes evident. According to Doesken, the water levels have dipped below average throughout most of Colorado.

“Since last year was dry and hot, our reservoirs have fallen below average over most of the state,” Doesken said.

“We don't necessari-ly need a really wet year to get back to normal — but it

would be good if we could at least be close to ‘average.’ But with another week of dry, sunny weather forecast, the chances of catching up are getting lower.”

Doesken said we simply cannot tell if we’ll continue dry, revert to near average or experience wetter than aver-age conditions.

“The climate is natural-ly highly variable and often swings back and forth. Many drought periods in the past ended with floods or very wet weather,” Doesken said. “So while we don't know what will happen this year, from past experience we can tell it could be interesting.”

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

Less water gathers in Colo. reservoirs due to record heat

Nolan Doesken stands outside of his home in Fort Collins Sunday afternoon. Doesken is a CSU climatologist and is currently investigating why there has been so little snow throughout this mild winter.

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“We don’t necessarily need a really wet year to get back to normal – but it would be good if we could at least be close to ‘average.’”

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population, according to Nancy Irlbeck, associate dean of academic affairs. The college hired a recruit-er, Ruben Flores, who helps provide infrastructure for the college and increase both re-cruitment and retention.

Irlbeck predicted that the Hispanic population within Colorado will be pre-dominant within a few years. She believes the College of Agricultural Sciences needs to change Latinos’ perspec-tive on agriculture and en-courage involvement.

“Our role within the Col-lege of Agricultural Sciences is to help change the perception that these young men and these young women have of agriculture, and that you don’t have to be a migrant worker, you don’t have to work in a packing plant, you can work as a leader,” Irlbeck said.

College of Applied Human Sciences

2003: 11.8 percent were minorities

2012: 17 percent were minorities

Nine-year change: 5.6 percent increase

A “number of units” have been created to help diversify the College of Applied Human Sciences (CAHS), particularly when it comes to retention, recruitment and inclusion, according to Malcolm Scott, co-chair of the college’s Diver-sity Committee.

Scott said CAHS has maintained an active diversity committee and has also part-nered with historically black colleges and universities.

CAHS is also spearhead-ing efforts to bring the Vice President of Diversity from Texas A&M University to CSU for a consultation and presen-tation, according to Scott.

College of Business 2003: 10.2 percent were

minorities 2012: 13.3 percent were

minorities Nine-year change: 2.1

percent increase

Mike Jaramillo, director

of undergraduate programs for the College of Business (COB), said that some ways the school has worked to in-crease diversity include im-proving resources for diverse students, improving inclu-sivity and educating faculty and staff on diversity issues.

“We have made it easier for us to retain diverse stu-dents,” Jaramillo said.

Jaramillo said the college also has several diversity-re-lated organizations such as the Business Diversity and Leadership Alliance, which is centered on including of all types of diverse students, from gender to sexual orien-tation, ability, class, religion, race and ethnicity.

In addition, the College of Business Mentoring Pro-gram pairs first generation and ethnically diverse stu-dents with a junior or senior in the college.

“The more diverse a class is, the more perspectives, the more ideas –– the more stu-dents learn,” Jaramillo said.

College of Engineering 2003: 8.9 percent were



percent increase

According to Kathleen Baumgardner, director of the College of Engineering, the college has run a student ambassador program in the last six years. The plan of ac-tion pairs current students with prospective students to determine if their programs fit their needs.

“It is our belief that this program is particularly helpful for not only women but also ethnically diverse groups,” Baumgardner wrote in an email to the Collegian.

According to Baumgard-ner, since 2007 the percent-age of undergraduate eth-nically diverse students has increased at a rate of 57.6 percent, compared with the total undergraduate enroll-ment which has increased at a rate of 39.9 percent.

“Living and learning among students from various

ethnic, cultural, geographic, socioeconomic, linguistic and religious backgrounds benefits every student and the college as a whole,” Baumgardner said.

Intra-University (undeclared student advising)

2003: 14.2 percent 2012: 21.3 percent Nine-year change: 8.1

percent increase

Intra-University is the name given to undeclared student advising, which is housed under CSU’s Cen-ter for Advising and Student Achievement (CASA). With 21.3 percent of its students coming from underrepresent-ed backgrounds, it is the most diverse part of CSU’s campus.

According to Madyln D’Andrea, director of advis-ing for undeclared students, minorities enrolled at CSU are attracted to Key Commu-nities, which target diverse students when they apply for admission. The programs require students to live (of-ten in Braiden Hall) and take classes together, creating a built-in support group to en-courage retention.

“Our newest community is Key Explore; that’s for stu-dents who want to see their other options before they take a major choice,” D’An-drea said. Of these students, 50 percent them are ethni-cally and racially diverse.

The reasons for being an undeclared student, ac-cording to D’Andrea, come from wanting to explore majors before declaring, not knowing the different majors available as well as not yet meeting the requirements for competitive majors such as engineering or business.

“I think we’re doing more than a lot of universities and institutions and we’re all re-ally proud of that,” D’Andrea said. “The students are just wonderful to work with be-cause they are so interested and eager to be here.

College of Liberal Arts 2003: 13.1 percent were


minorities Nine-year change: 5 per-

cent increaseThe number of diverse

students in the College of

Liberal Arts is increasing be-cause of changes in admis-sions, according to Associ-ate Dean Irene Vernon. The faculty diversity, however, is “dreadful,” she said.

In 2003, 10 percent of the college’s teaching staff came were minorities. In 2012, that number climbed to 14 percent.

When looking at the numbers, it appears that CSU is doing well with un-derrepresented faculty members, with a very high percentage of Asians, ac-cording to Vernon.

Out of the 146 minority teachers on campus, 75 are Asian. There are 10 Asian fac-ulty members in the College of Liberal Arts, which has 30 minority faculty members in total.

Vernon said she believes that diversity cannot be looked at as a compartmen-talized situation but a topic that needs to be at the root and core of the university.

“All we have to do is think about what the future is go-ing to look like in America and how the demographics are changing,” she said. “It’s

not looking into the future anymore. It’s now.”

College of Natural Sciences 2003: 14 percent were mi-

norities 2012: 19.4 percent were


percent increaseThe College of Natural

Sciences has a history of diverse undergraduate stu-dents. The college is almost 4 percent above the total per-centage of minority students at CSU and first in the num-ber of diverse students as a science college, according to Dean Janice Nerger.

The college has a vari-ety of programs that help recruit and retain diverse students, according to Nerg-er. It has a leadership role in the consortium for the Col-orado Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, which works to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation of underrepre-sented students who earn bachelor’s degrees in sci-ence, technology, engineer-ing or mathematics.

Additionally, the college has organizations and clubs that connect students with those of similar interests. The CSU chapter of the So-ciety for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Amer-icans in Science (SACNAS) promotes and supports re-cruitment and retention of underrepresented minori-ties, and was recognized for seven consecutive years at the SACNAS National Con-ference for its work with di-verse students, according to Nerger.

College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences




Over the last four years, underrepresented student enrollment for the college remained stable, according to Kenneth Blehm, associate

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dean of CVMBS. Each year has had some fluctuation, which is likely caused by differences in the number of people reporting their minority status and chang-es in federal classification of underrepresented stu-dents.

“Overall we continue to attract minority students who share a passion for applied life sciences in an environment that stresses integrated hands-on learn-ing to complement rigor-ous classroom programs,” Blehm wrote in an email to the Collegian.

The college has at-tempted to focus its pub-licity efforts on attracting minority students through university initiatives. Stu-dents who enroll in CVMBS learn to explain complex topics, solve problems,

learn actively and commu-nicate clearly. Relative to these attributes, there is no difference between minori-ty and non-minority stu-dents, Blehm said.

Warner College of Natural Resources




The Warner College of Natural Resources (WCNR) is the least diverse college on campus, but the num-bers of ethnic and diverse students are increasing.

“I think it’s pretty easy to go from: when your numbers are pretty low to increase those num-bers,” said Ethan Billing-sley, assistant director of undergraduate programs at WCNR. “Historically, we

haven’t been extremely di-verse.”

Billingsley believes that this is partially reflective of the population of Colorado.

“Our population has changed dramatically in the last 30 years, looking at racial diversity, there’s been a large upswing in the Lati-no population,” he said. “We’re seeing more of these students as well.”

In Larimer County, ac-cording to Billingsley, the Latino population is 25 percent of the total popu-lation.

“When the U.S. For-est Services wants to talk about how we manage the land here in Larimer Coun-ty, we need to understand how the entire population wants to use the land. It’s everybody’s land,” Billing-sley said. “Not just the 75 percent.”

Fields of study like

wildlife, forestry and geol-ogy have not always been linked in the school setting to allow diverse students to be introduced to these ar-eas of studies.

Billingsley used African American communities concentrated in urban cen-ters as an example.

“They didn’t have a connection already with natural resources so that didn’t lead them to study it,” Billingsley said. “Those barriers are coming down

as more work is down to in-clude all people in under-standing natural resourc-es.”

Billingsley said the at-traction for students to WCNR is generally, “I have a passion for the outdoors; I like the outdoors; I want to study things that have to do with the outdoors.”

For those who love the outdoors, WCNR has pro-vided more outlets to re-cruit more students, such as a club on campus called

Minorities in Natural Re-sources, Agriculture and Related Sciences, for which Billingsley is the advisor.

“The goal of this organi-zation is to assist in student success and professional development of diverse students in these fields,” he said.

Senior Reporter Kate Winkle, Student Life Beat Reporter Bailey Constas and News Editor Emily Smith can be reached at [email protected].

DiveRsity | Warner College of Natural Resource least diverse

“The goal of this organization is to assist in student success and professional development of diverse students in these fields.”

Ethan Billingsey | Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs at Warner College of Natural Resources


By Andrew SchAllerThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Going into winter break, the CSU men’s basketball team came off two disap-pointing road losses, one to rival CU-Boulder and one to Illinois-Chicago.

Since then, the Rams have rattled off nine wins in 10 games en route to posi-tioning themselves in second place in the Mountain West.

“We’ve lost once and that was in overtime at San Di-ego State — a tough place to play,” CSU coach Larry Eu-stachy said. “So we’ve made progress, (but) I think we can get so much better.”

Of the nine wins during the recess, the Rams de-feated two teams from last year’s NCAA tournament (St. Bonaventure and UNLV) while pushing No. 16 San Di-ego State to overtime on the road.

They did it by reminding everyone of the Rams’ team that made the tournament last year.

During the break, CSU has performed better from the field than its opponents in every game except the San Diego State and UNLV con-tests, and shot at 50 percent or better from the field in four games.

To go along with their hot shooting, the Rams out-rebounded every team it faced over break, while making themselves the team with the best rebound-ing margin in the country (13.8).

The hustle plays helped CSU particularly in its last game against UNLV, when

the Rams denied the Rebels second chance opportuni-ties down the stretch before squeaking out a 66-61 vic-tory.

Senior center Colton Iverson struggled from the field in the game, scoring seven points on 1-for-8 shooting, but grabbed 10 re-bounds and was described by Eustachy as “the happiest guy in the locker room,” de-spite his poor shooting per-

formance.“There’s a lot of things

that go into playing and win-ning a game,” senior guard Dorian Green said.

“It’s not just scoring, (there’s) defense and re-bounding, everybody was great defensively. So being a great teammate and know-ing that the team’s first and trying to do whatever you can to help the team win; knowing you have guys like

that is great.”While some Rams like

Iverson and Eikmeier strug-gled in scoring seven and six points, respectively against UNLV, Green shined while scoring 24 points, adding five rebounds and dishing five assists.

The performance pro-pelled the Rams to victory and helped Green receive MW player of the week honors.

“I think it’s cool but I think it’s a compliment to our whole team, the way we play and how unselfish we are,” Green said. “The fact that it came in a win makes it better.”

Pulling out the victory against the Rebels keeps the Rams in the hunt for the top position in the conference, as every team in the MW has lost to a conference oppo-nent at least once except for

New Mexico, who the Rams will play on Wednesday.

Because of the fierce competition in the league, every one of the remaining 13 games in the season will be critical in securing the Rams’ position heading into the MW championships in March.

“We can play great and lose because of who’s in this league,” Eustachy said. “But we’ll play our best and hope-fully it equals wins.”

The Rams have said throughout the year that it will be important for them to have an even keel through-out the season whether they win or lose.

CSU has maintained that tone while having a tough practice Monday af-ternoon in which Eustachy pulled players aside to work on their game and having the team run sprints when things weren’t going well.

“If you’re not getting bet-ter, you’re getting worse,” Iverson said. “So we defi-nitely wanna come in and work hard every day, and the teams that aren’t doing that aren’t improving and we just wanna keep getting better.”

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


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Unselfish play propels rams to nine wins over break

Colorado State Rams players mug Dorian Green after their second straight home conference win. After his performace in Saturday nights game, Green was awarded the Mountain West player of the week.

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By kyle grABOwSkiThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The CSU women’s bas-ketball team more than dou-bled its win total over the winter break while adding nearly as many losses as it previously possessed.

The Rams compiled a 3-5 overall record while begin-ning Mountain West play at 1-2 with a win over Air Force and losses to San Diego State and UNLV.

CSU opened the recess with a 56-54 win over Cal State Bakersfield before drop-ping three straight games, two at the Fordham Holiday Clas-sic in the Bronx, NY.

Junior forward Sam

Martin earned a spot on the all-tournament team after averaging 13.5 points and 5.5 rebounds in the two losses.

The Rams then won two out of their next three games, all played in the state of Colorado.

They crushed Division-II opponent South Dakota Tech by 40 before losing to San Di-

ego State and downing Air Force to open conference play.

CSU opened the Air Force game on a 15-3 run after experiencing painfully slow starts throughout the non-conference season.

“I thought we were really disruptive, and we rebound-ed the ball well,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “It was comforting to our kids to get on the board first. We need-ed this today.”

The Rams continued their new pattern of start-ing quickly by opening up a 7-1 lead on UNLV, but they couldn’t hold the lead due to turnovers which lead to a plethora of simple baskets for the Rebels.

CSU turned the ball over 23 times in that game after turning the ball over a shade under 16 times per game en-tering the contest.

“I think it was us. They had decent pressure but we’ve seen a lot worse,” sophomore guard Caitlin Duffy said. “We weren’t as tough with the ball as we should be.”

CSU turned the ball over more than 15 times in five of its games over the break, and though the coaches can simulate pressure in prac-tice, at some point it falls on the players to become more mentally and physically tough with the ball, accord-ing to Williams.

Though the Rams lost five of their eight games, the manner in which they lost has shifted since the begin-ning of the season.

Four of the team’s first six losses were by more than double digits while only two of the games over break were blowouts.

Freshman Caitlin Duffy has helped CSU become a more competitive team through her increased offen-sive output.

Duffy averaged 13.5 points per game during the break compared to seven in the preceding contests.

“We definitely want the ball in her hands. She cre-ates plays on the offensive

end,” senior forward Megan Heimstra said. “She has a really great three point shot and drive so it’s really hard to guard her.”

CSU plays its next two games at home, where they are .500 on the season, and is looking to begin to build confidence and momentum in the Mountain West.

“Coming off a loss is al-ways hard, but I think we’re a close team and we’ll come together. We are confident,” Duffy said. “It’s going to be nice to have two home games and we’ve shown a lot even in our losses of what we can be.”

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

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By DaviD LauterThe McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama publicly took the oath of office for his sec-ond term Monday, strongly defending the ideology of his party as he urged Amer-icans to accept compromise as a path toward solving the nation’s problems.

“Progress does not compel us to settle cen-turies-long debates about the role of government for all time — but it does re-quire us to act in our time,” Obama said, soon after taking the oath from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. “Decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism

for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.”

While just over 18 min-utes — relatively short by historical standards — the address hit several major policy priorities Obama hopes to pursue.

For the first time, an in-augural address mentioned

the rights of gay Ameri-cans, as Obama declared that America’s “journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else un-der the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

The president also in-

sisted on the need to “re-spond to the threat of cli-mate change” — a subject he largely avoided after a sting-ing loss in Congress early in his first term.

“Some may still deny the overwhelming judg-ment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms,” he said. “The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America can-not resist this transition; we must lead it.”

“That is how we will pre-serve our planet, command-ed to our care by God.”

Obama wove those spe-cific policy pledges, along with brief reminders of his proposals for gun control and immigration reform, into a text that, overall, amounted to a strong re-affirmation of the core of liberal, Democratic politics

and its belief in the positive role that government can play in the nation’s life.

In a nod to those who do not share that outlook, he noted that Americans “have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.”

But, he said, “preserving our individual freedoms ul-timately requires collective action.”

“We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few,” he said. “The commitments we make to each other — through Medicare, and Med-icaid, and Social Security — these things do not sap our initiative; they strength-en us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.”

Obama uses inauguration to spotlight policy pledges

“We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. The commitments we make to each other — through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security — these things do

not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.”

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (01/22/13). It’s getting romantic. The fi rst half of 2013 holds creativity, fun and cultural exploration. Your communication skills are on fi re, so light up your social life. Career blazes after June. Provide excellent service, and your fortunes rise. Increase skills to keep pace. Waltz with changes.

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19) ––7–– You’re exceptionally in-telligent now. Put your mind to good use. Surround yourself with people who you respect and respect you and fi nd new solutions to old problems.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ––5–– There’s plenty to go around; relax and enjoy it. Others need you. Provide leader-ship, and allow others to lead you, too. You’re surrounded by loving friends. Show them your appreciation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ––9–– Savor sweet moments and share them with a loved one. Your generosity is commend-able. Don’t let your bright future blind you. Find support in your community, and return the favor.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ––5–– Optimism is appropriate now. Pick up the pieces and make something new. Call on your intuitive talent, and accept guidance. You’re surrounded by love.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ––9–– Beauty surrounds you. Pay attention to the surrounding syncopation to discover some-thing new. Intuition fi nds an opportunity. Allow yourself to get luxurious, but family comes fi rst.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ––8–– Take time to praise, ad-mire and thank someone who’s made a difference. A small risk now pays off. Negotiate from the heart. Relax to avoid a temper tantrum.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ––8–– You have more than enough and keep earning more. Read and take the time to let thoughts sink in. Stock up. Share the luck and the love. Confer with family.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ––7–– Investigate previously impossible possibilities, and use your charm and wit to make them possible. Listen for ideas out of the blue, from those around you, and revise your plans.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ––9–– What you lack in funds you can compensate with creativity and self-confi -dence. Look around; you are well blessed. Love drops a hap-py surprise in your lap.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––8–– You don’t quite know how brilliant you are, but you could fi nd out. Go for what you believe in. Discover new friendships and projects to get in-volved in. Dive in.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––7–– A breakthrough mo-ment is here. Expand your ideas to reach a larger audience. Use what you’ve gained to build structure. Income fl uctu-ates, so think twice before making a purchase.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––9–– Toss the ball to a team-mate. Relieve the pressure and make room for a fabulous op-portunity. Reinvigorate your team and think outside the box. You’ve got a buzz going.

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