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Guard LeDeyah Forte (1) fi ghts through pressure from head coach Ryun Wil-liams during practice.

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By QUENTIN SICKAFOOSEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

If there were any question if the CSU women’s basketball team is still hung up on its sea-son opening loss over the week-end, the answer would be no.

The Rams fell short in their debut with new head coach Ryun Williams to Montana State on Sunday, but Tuesday night’s game against the University of Northern Colorado has Wil-liams’ eye on the next one.

“We’re going to address it here with fi lm and prac-tice, but onward has to be our mentality,” he said. “You can’t change the last game, but you can change the things within that last game.”

However, Williams won’t have much time to turn those aspects about his team’s perfor-mance around before getting tested again. The Rams will run on only one practice between Sunday’s loss and Tuesday night’s showdown in Moby.

“There’s only so much you can do in a day, unfortunately,” Williams said. “They’ll battle us. They will be a physical, blue collar type of team, so we

have to be ready for that.”The Bears travel to Fort Col-

lins with impressive numbers from their season debut against Air Force, the same type of num-bers that gave the Rams a rough stretch over the weekend.

UNC grabbed 45 boards and shot almost 50 percent from the fi eld against the Fal-cons on their home court in Greeley last Friday, but CSU senior forward Meghan Heim-stra likes her team’s chances in their home gym.

“We lost to them at their place last year in a pretty close battle that we should have pulled off,” Heimstra said. “So that will have us looking for our fi rst win on the Moby court.”

Heimstra, who is typi-cally one of CSU’s breakout performers, had an unusually rough welcome back with a performance that fell well be-low her previous averages. This is something she is already looking forward to fi xing; with a specifi c plan in mind.

“For a fi rst game, I think we had lots of ups as a team, but also things that need to be worked on,” Heimstra said. “I need to get more rebounds. I’d

like to get at least 10. I’m going to focus on getting more steals, and helping out my team on defense.”

UNC won its exhibition game and season opener, and Williams acknowledges the fact that UNC’s momentum will play a factor in Tuesday’s game.

“We do need to worry about Northern Colorado. We need to contain their strengths,” Williams said. “But right now it’s more about Colo-rado State, and fi xing what we can control.”

The Rams and Bears tipoff at 7 p.m. at Moby Arena.

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

Rams get little rest before UNCUNC

FG percentage: 49.7 Rebounds: 45 Turnovers: 27

CSU FG percentage: 32.2 Rebounds: 40 Turnovers: 18

FIRST GAME STATS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

New student violations program By SKYLER LEONARDThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Due to a new tracking system, al-cohol referrals in residence halls in-creased substantially from 188 inci-dents in 2010 to 808 in 2011, according to statistics released by the CSU Police Department this September.

But that doesn’t mean more stu-dents are being caught drinking in the dorms.

The 430 percent increase is because Confl ict Resolution and Student Con-duct Services (CRSCS) now tracks not only meetings it has with students, but meetings residence halls have with stu-dents as well.

In residence halls, 728 meetings were conducted with students who vi-olated alcohol policies, while 144 were conducted by CRSCS. Sixty-four cases overlapped.

Director of Residence Life Laura Giles found the overall number of al-cohol citations for 2011 to be similar to previous years, noting that the num-bers may be more accurate thanks to the modern tracking system.

“If nothing else, we have better numbers because we have a system that is more current,” Giles said.

Giles said that residence hall meet-ings closely follow guidelines set by CRSCS and the supervision of its staff to ensure students are on track to

change their ways.Hearings held by residence halls

normally deal with what Giles calls low-level cases.

“What we deem as low level is a stu-dent walking in a hallway with beer in their hand,” Giles said.

Hearings with residence hall direc-tors occur after a Resident Assistant (R.A.) makes contact with a student in possession of alcohol. The R.A. then submits a report to the resident direc-tor of the hall, who then has a hearing with the student.

With 728 hearings held in resident halls, CSUPD Chief Wendy Rich-Gold

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Offi cer Paul Ashe works the swing shift Monday in Parmelee Hall. The CSU Police Department has increased their presence in the residence halls recently.

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By AMANDA ZETAHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Over the course of Novem-ber, CSU has been celebrat-ing Native American History Month with a variety of events to raise awareness of the Na-tive American population and its history, both on campus and in the surrounding Fort Collins community.

“Our goal is to create the cultural awareness that Na-tive Americans are here and are very proud,” said Haley Ruybal, a senior fi ne arts ma-jor and self-identifi ed Native American.

According to CSU Institu-tional Research, there are 104 students at CSU that identify as Native American.

The Native American Cultural Center (NACC), one of CSU’s diversity offi ces, planned guest speakers, a food sampling session at The Aspen Grille and information sessions over the course of the month to bring attention to the fact that many Native American tribes are from the Northern Colorado area.

“A lot of students don’t re-alize what native tribes were in this area –– they assume that Colorado started with French trappers,” said Ty Smith, direc-tor of the Native American Re-source Center.

Along with Native Ameri-can Heritage Month, the cul-tural center works to increase awareness across the board.

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CSU wraps up celebration of Native American History Month

Stop by the Native American Cultural Center in Room 218 in the Lory Student Center.

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Junior health and exercise science major David Darnell rides his bike near W prospect road Monday afternoon. NICK LYON | COLLEGIAN

Community Briefs

Megan Plourde one of the Mountain West’s women’s volleyball co-players of the week

CSU senior middle blocker Megan Plourde has been named the Mountain West’s women’s volleyball co-player of the week, after average 3.43 kills, 1.14 blocks and 0.57 digs per set during wins against UNLV and Fresno State.

Wyoming sophomore middle blocker Erin Kirby was also rec-ognized.

This is Plourde’s second Mountain West weekly honor of the season, and the fourth of her career.

Senior outside hitter Dana Cranston is the only other CSU player to have been recognized as the Mountain West women’s volleyball player of the week.

CSU Symphonic Band to explore the theme of dreams in concert

Sweet dreams are made of

the CSU Symphonic Band. That’s because tonight the

CSU Symphonic Band will per-form a “dream-themed” concert. It will begin with Steven Bryant’s “Suite Dreams,” a re-working of the fi rst movement of the Holst “First Suite in E-fl at.”

The concert will also feature CSU professor and esteemed soprano Tiffany Blake singing Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.”

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Griffi n Concert Hall in the University Center for the Arts.

Tickets are $7 for CSU students, $1 for youth ages 2 through 17, and $12 for adults.

Learn what mindfulness can do for you

Is the stress of the semester getting you down?

All you might need is a little bit of mindfulness, according to the CSU Health Network. Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating aware-ness of the mind and body, and living in the now, according to an

entry on the CSU events calendar. At 3 p.m. tomorrow in the

lower conference room of the Student Recreation Center, the CSU Health Network is host-ing an introductory 90-minute workshop “to learn how to be-gin to restore a balanced sense of health and well-being by applying simple mindfulness principles,” according to the events calendar.

Call the CSU Health Network at 970-491-6053 to sign up.

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“There is often misinter-pretation and stereotyping of Native Americans –– it is evident in Halloween cos-tumes, theme parties, Holly-wood movies and especially the media,” Smith said.

Many students visit NACC on a regular basis and more are encouraged to stop by.

“It serves as a resource for native students to fi gure out the ins and outs of col-lege, and also meet people they can identify with and

eventually trust,” Ruybal said.

The resource center of-fers a variety of programs for students, including the Amer-ican Indian Science and Engi-neering Society (AISES) and the Native American Student Association (NASA). There are also weekly mentoring ses-sions for incoming freshmen and transfer students.

“We aim to build a com-munity and a place that feels like home,” Ruybal said, “We make a point to reach out.”

NACC has an open door

policy and offers its services to any student that happens to walk into the offi ce.

“Our doors are open to any student,” Ruybal said.

“We welcome everyone re-gardless of race or creed.”

City Beat Reporter Aman-da Zetah can be reached at [email protected].

HISTORY | Celebrating Native American cultureNative Trivia Night at the Ramskeller

When: 6 to 8 p.m., Nov. 13 Where: LSC Ramskeller

Women@Noon: Native Quilt-ing Traditions

When: Noon to 1 p.m., Nov. 14

Where: LSC Room 224-226

Book Displays When: Throughout the month of

November Where: CSU Bookstore, Morgan

Library, Fort Collins Public Library, 201 Peterson Street

UPCOMING EVENTS

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-schmidt fi nds the job of the R.A. to be challenging when dealing with things such as alcohol violations.

“It is a diffi cult job. It is a tough situation to be in,” Rich-Goldschmidt said.

An R.A., who spoke on the condition of anonymity, agreed.

“It is more appropriate for the (police department) to contact students about al-cohol and drugs because we do live here in the halls and these situations can become awkward, so it is even better when the police can step in and help,” the R.A. said.

To facilitate this, CSUPD implemented what’s referred to as the liaison program, in which offi cers are assigned to specifi c residence halls, according to CSUPD Cpl. Ramsey Crochet.

“The liaison program happens at multiple levels,” Giles said. “Police offi cers are assigned residential halls and develop a relationship with the director of each hall, the R.A.’s and students. They serve as a resource if staff is having a hard time answering questions from students, offi cers can help.”

Crochet put it differently.“While the relationship

has always been good, the assignment of one offi cer as a liaison to each residence hall has created partnerships where housing staff and offi -cers collaborate in problem solving efforts, crime pre-vention and personal safety presentations, and alcohol and drug education training, and made an already good relationship better,” he said.

When police contact is made with a student violat-ing alcohol policy in resi-

dent halls, they may assist in resolving problems, writing a citation for a student or re-ferring them to Confl ict Res-olution and Student Con-duct Services, depending on the situation.

“It is the police’s own dis-cretion,” Giles said.

Regardless, education is of great importance for CSUPD, residence halls and CRSCS staff.

“In an effort to redirect and educate students, one of the fi rst steps in dealing with an alcohol or minor drug con-tact is a CSUSA (CSU Scholar-ship Application) citation and referral to Student Conduct where the student is afforded resources available on cam-pus dedicated to changing their behavior and use of al-cohol/drugs,” Crochet wrote in an email to the Collegian.

CRSCS Director Craig Chesson, said the referral

system is innovative in how it helps students.

“One thing that is great about our process is that it is not a cookie cutter or a strikes process,” Chesson said. “There are several op-tions we can work with the student to decide what is best. We try to send them on a path of reform.”

According to Chesson, CSU is known as a model across the country because of all the educational options available to benefi t students.

“I think the biggest thing that separates our program from others is the amount of educational programs we have focusing on stu-dent success and retention,” Chesson said. “In kicking students out we would not be addressing the issues.”

Collegian Writer Skyler Leonard can be reached at [email protected].

CSUPD | Residence halls implementation

“� ere are several options we can work with the student to decide what is best. We try to send them on a path of reform.”

Craig Chesson | CRSCS Director

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About two days ago I stumbled upon an article originally posted — and then promptly removed — by CNN that released the findings of a peer-re-viewed study conducted at the Univer-sity of Texas-San Antonio.

The study surveyed about 300 women not taking a hormonal contra-ception and then asked them about politics and voting.

What did the study conclude?Well, according to the article

by Elizabeth Landau published on WTHITV.com, the study concluded that “When women are ovulating, they ‘feel sexier,’ and therefore lean more toward liberal attitudes on abortion and marriage equality. Married wom-en have the same hormones firing, but tend to take the opposite viewpoint on these issues.”

The study provoked a lot of neg-ative commentary, most in disagree-ment but a significant amount in favor.

I will admit, when I first read this and the comments I was not entirely offended. I found it initially humor-ous.

I, by no means, intend to bad mouth the university or the work of those who conducted the survey. And I am not say-ing there isn’t any truth to their findings, seeing as it is peer reviewed.

On the other hand, I see a lot of problems with a study such as this one.

We all know, at least we should all know, that sexism hasn’t been com-pletely eradicated in our society. Wom-en today still earn less than their male counterparts, still bear the brunt of mi-sogynistic attitudes and, unfortunately, most of the decisions concerning wom-en are governed by men. Sexism is still a prevalent issue in American culture; we live in a patriarchal society. We are not post-sexism any more than we are post-racial.

With that being said, I feel as if this study could only be a disservice to women. I feel justified in saying that its results could only hinder the progress of women.

Historically, there have been many arguments made that have claimed that women are less intelligent than men and less capable of making in-formed decisions. We have come a long way since early misinformed notions about women, but these early ideas still creep under the surface of our society.

In my opinion, this survey says that because of hormones, women aren’t in total control of making decisions about politics, work or money.

The study, I would have to say, rules out any other factors that may influence a woman’s voting preference, such as race, class or personal values. It assumes that these factors do not play a role in influencing voting decision in the face of ovulation and hormones.

I am not completely ruling out the

idea that hormones do play a role in our lives; we are hormonal creatures, men included. I am only assuming if it is to be said that women’s hormones affect their political decisions, the same can be said for men.

The university’s study also enforces the erroneous representation of wom-en as sexual objects. Yet again, their ability to make as informed decisions about politics as men is undermined.

My wariness comes from person-al voting experiences. I am liberal in political ideology and I am confident when I say that, regardless of whether I have been in a relationship or not, my hormones haven’t swayed me to vote conservative.

It would be unfortunate if it was ar-gued that women’s hormones were to “blame” for the election of either a con-servative or liberal candidate.

No, I don’t like the results of the study but I am not completely ruling it out.

I have noticed that our culture is notorious for presenting women in this fashion. Whereas men, the “default sex,” are virtually free of discourse of this nature.

I am advocating gender equality. I am concerned that the studies that have investigated the influence of men’s hormones in politics don’t cre-ate such a fuss and aren’t as publicized. And, I am concerned that if we contin-ue to only emphasize the “faults” of women, we hinder the progression of women and gender equality.

Nicole Frazier is a senior English and Spanish major. Her column ap-pears every other Tuesday in the Colle-gian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

If you thought the po-litical ads were bad, try the political Facebook posts. The night of the election my news feed was riddled with post after post after post of people either praising or condemning Obama — and none of them were in any way helpful.

As Americans, we have big egos. We seem to think that we kind of rule the world, but as social media users our egos have got-ten bigger. Some are worse than others, but we seem to be operating under the assumption that everyone wants to hear what we have to say about everything.

Here’s the thing: My friends on Facebook are my friends, sure, but that doesn’t mean that I particularly care what they have to say about Obama.

Why do you think that people always tell you to avoid politics and religion on the first date? Because it inevitably ends up in an argument about who’s right and who’s wrong, when in all actuality there is no right or wrong answer. I firmly be-lieve that politics brings out the worst in people.

So why do people seem to feel so confident, then, voicing their views on candidates be-hind the safety net of a com-puter screen? Why is it that social etiquette doesn’t seem to apply to social media?

Freedom of speech, right? We have the right to say whatever we want, whenever we want. It’s what makes America great. As an op-ed columnist, I am all for freedom of speech. However, I definitely think that there are things you should say to yourself, and those are not the things that you should be typing for the world to see.

I pull up MSN and see that a woman in California, who made the bright deci-sion of putting a racial slur regarding our commander in chief and her hope of his assassination on Facebook, is wondering why she is un-der investigation and unem-ployed.

Donald Trump is under fire from the tweets he post-ed election night, and yet he has “no regrets.” People, in case you haven’t gotten the memo, what you put out into

cyberspace will inevitably come back to haunt you.

I have yet to make one political post. Not because I don’t care about politics or am in-different, but because I know that it will not help anything. Those that read my post will either agree or disagree with me, or simply not want to hear it — but I’m not changing anyone’s mind.

I know who I vot-ed for, I know who was elected and I know that there is nothing that I can do about it now. Posting about my newfound de-sire to move to Canada or my champagne-popping excitement in no way helps the situation — it just makes half of the country hate me and the other half praise me.

As I have seen, based on some comments to my columns and those of my fellow columnists, peo-ple act like they’re invin-cible behind a computer screen. Those that say the most hurtful things nev-er use their real names, because they think that they can say whatev-er they’d like under the guise of anonymity. Even on Facebook, where your name and your photo are side-by-side, people think that they can say whatever they want — as long as it’s not to people’s faces.

Which is all fine and dandy, but if you’re go-ing to say something on a social media outlet, be willing to say it to ev-ery one of your “friends” or followers faces. If I got the woman in Cal-ifornia in an interview with Obama, I can al-most guarantee that the “N-word” wouldn’t be ut-tered to his face.

If Donald Trump sat across from the prez at the dinner table in the White House, I’m sure he’d be far more polite. If you’re willing to type it, be willing to say it.

Stupidity and social media don’t mix. Just like you should have a filter between your brain and your mouth, there should be a filter between your brain and your keyboard. If you want to say hurtful things on Facebook, think twice. Realize that not ev-eryone always wants to hear everything you have to say. Leave politics for civil discussions.

Brittany Jordan is a sophomore psychology major. Her column ap-pears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

David Petraeus has stepped down as director of the CIA, end-ing his notable and distinguished military career and service in a less than honorable light: His ex-tramarital affair was made public by a months-long FBI investiga-tion.

What blew the general’s cov-er? It’s reported that a woman initially contacted the FBI about threatening messages from Pe-traeus’ mistress, but what really provided the proof to cause the war hero to retire was a little digging in his personal email ac-count by the FBI.

Oh, the irony is sweet. In the time since 9/11 we have seen increasing monitoring and in-terception of American citizens’ emails in order to combat the perceived terrorist threat.

Petraeus, who has been a powerful force in our govern-ment for some time, assumed the

position of CIA director in 2011 and can be held at least partly responsible for the increasing in-trusions on our privacy.

What better way for the head of the CIA to get caught cheating than by the same government snooping through private emails that he gave his de facto approv-al to while having such a prom-inent role in the federal govern-ment?

The truly remarkable thing about this whole occurrence is how completely unaware our representatives in Congress were in regards to the Petraeus inves-tigation by the FBI.

This underscores a very im-portant issue in our modern sur-veillance state that our represen-tatives are loath to bring up, even with the slap in the face that came from the Petraeus incident: There is not enough congressional over-sight in the warrantless monitor-ing of our communications.

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Spy vs. Spy, Petraeus resigns

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By Brittany JOrdan

“There is not enough

congressoinal oversight in

the warrantless monitoring of our communications.”

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Should Puerto Rico become a state?

59% Yes. 25% No. 16% Make Guam a state.

Stupidity in social media post election

“Just like you should have a filter between your brain and your mouth, there should be a filter between your brain and

your keyboard.”

By niCOle frazier

Feeling sexy ladies? You’re liberal

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Yays and Nays

OPINION TuesdayCollegian

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More parties? Implement the double ballot majority system

YaY | to Amendment 64’s passing! Now all Hickenlooper has to do is sign the bill so we can break out the Cheetos and Goldfish.

naY | to the havoc sure to be wreaked by Black Friday. Will it be worse than Hur-ricane Sandy as some predict? Probably.

Yay | to General Patreaus resigning. He was way too conspicuous for a spy.

naY | to a busy week of studying, tests, papers and projects. Buck up, Rams. We can overcome.

YaY | to fall break coming. Stuff your face full of turkey (or tofurkey, if that’s your thing) and your heart full of memories.

naY | to poor early season skiing conditions. Rocks are meant to be thrown, slept on and or eaten, but never ridden.

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Guest Column

I didn't have much to look forward to on elec-tion night, never being blind to the fact that the third party candidate I was supporting didn't stand a chance. While Gary John-son only received about 1 percent of the popular vote, however, it was the most number of votes a Libertarian candidate has ever received.

There is no regret felt about my vote. In good conscience I could not vote for either status quo Obama or moderate Mitt, born with a silver spoon in every orifice.

Since neither candi-date represented my values and beliefs, I was forced to “waste” my vote on a third party, but why is this so? Why is it that we only have two parties and that only an extreme minimum of people vote for third par-ties even though most dis-like both of the major party candidates?

Our Commander in Chief is chosen by the people via a plurality vot-ing system. Plurality sys-tems operate under a “winner takes all” policy in which the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes wins the election.

In our system, unlike others, there is no re-quirement that the can-didate attain an absolute majority, which indicates that he has won more than 50 percent of the votes of all members of a voting institution.

All a candidate has to do is win more votes than his competitor to win in this system, which means that a candidate could win even if a majority of people voted for somebody other than that candidate.

The U.S.’s electoral system, whose plurality voting system is similar to Canada and the United Kingdom, seems to almost necessitate a political di-vide between two major parties in the nation — one to the left, one to the right — which typically results in the disregard of other political viewpoints.

The reason this hap-pens is because the two primary parties grow so strong that it is often seen as a waste of a vote to cast it for one partisan side or the other, for fear of your vote being wasted on a third, unlikely candidate (even if your honest vote would be for neither).

In the study of politi-cal science, this is referred to as Duverger’s law, which predicts that constituen-cies that use systems such as ours inevitably become two-party systems given enough time.

This inevitable two party monopoly occurs, Duverger (a French so-

ciologist) suggests, be-cause the many weaker parties in the system tend to form a coalition after continuously los-ing, and weak parties are quickly deserted once it is learned that they will never win.

This was the first of Duverger’s hypotheses. His second states that: “The double ballot majority sys-tem and proportional rep-resentation tend to multi-partism.”

The double ballot ma-jority system is one where — if the winner hasn’t won by an absolute majority — there is a second vote excluding all but the top candidates.

Supporters of unlikely candidates then have a chance to cast their true vote the first time in good conscience while still be-ing able to participate in the second vote if nobody wins over 50 percent of the vote.

The majority system eliminates the sense of having to choose the less-er of two evils, because a citizen’s initial vote is not completely discounted if the winner does not re-ceive an absolute majority of the votes.

If we changed our elec-toral system to a double ballot majority it will cre-ate opportunity for change and a varied political cli-mate that is not gridlocked one side against the other. Sadly, though, our political system will never change; why is that?

The parameters for the election of public officials is not dictated by the Con-stitution; we can change our electoral system into anything we want!

But we never will. We'll continue to choose to vote based upon the fear of the "enemy" can-didate being elected in willful ignorance, swal-lowing each partisan side’s lies and believing that we’re making a dif-ference when casting our vote for either side of the binopoly.

Democrats and Repub-licans like the system we have. They get to pit one half of the citizenry against the other and take turns reaping the benefits — they’re not out to help you; you have nothing to offer once you’ve given them your vote.

At the end of the day the two major candidates are just fighting over who gets the power to dictate which lobbyists will receive the most loopholes and grant money, and which industries — both foreign and abroad — will receive the tax cuts and domi-nant position in business relations for the next four years.

Don’t keep voting in Republicans and Demo-crats and expect to see any change. Let’s completely restructure our electoral system and force change upon them.

Editorial Editor Kevin Jensen is a senior English major. His column appears Tuesdays in the Collegian. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @kevinrjensen.

“Don’t keep voting in Republicans and Democrats

and expect to see any change.”

Hello friends, another semester is winding down, and I am here to in-form you about the ASCSU Supreme Court. Although many students are unaware of its existence, there is a Judicial Branch within Associated Students of Colorado State University that has real judicial authority over students. The ASCSU Supreme Court has judicial authority over every member of ASCSU (that means you!), including the Senate and all other ad-ministrative boards.

The Supreme Court also must per-form many duties and has a great deal of responsibilities. They must interpret and enforce the ASCSU constitution, perform judicial review of the Sen-ate, set its own bylaws and procedure and hear cases involving constitu-tional amendments, Senate bills, inter-branch disputes and election appeals.

An ASCSU Supreme Court Justice must also serve on the All University Hearing Board (AUHB), which is re-sponsible for conducting hearings for sports clubs, student organizations and greek chapters if they have violated any university policy. They also work hand in hand with Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct Services, are required to attend four ASCSU events and four non-ASCSU events, hold office hours every week (two for associates justices, 10 for the chief justice), and serve on a committee like Elections Task Force,

RamRide Task Force, Off-Campus Life Advisory, Student Advisory Board and Student Fee Review Board.

As you can see, the Supreme Court is a time-consuming position that is much more than a figurehead or a re-sume builder. Supreme Court Justices are involved in decision-making pro-cesses that have direct impact on the students and often involve very serious subjects.

The ASCSU Supreme Court consists of six associates justices and one chief justice. Of the six associates, four are brand new this year and bring a new energy to the court. Kellen Wittkop is a senior economics and English dou-ble major and the chief justice. Emily Adkison is a junior history major and is one of the new associate justices. Kelsey Hall is a returning associate jus-tice, who is a junior political science and French major. Cherica Stigall is the other returning justice and is a senior economics major.

Caleb Nagel is an associate justice who is new this year and is a sopho-more criminology major. Nigel Dan-iels is an associate justice who is also new this year and is a junior political science major. Emily Horn is a junior English major and also a new associate justice. And finally I am Keith Patton, a senior business major and the Supreme Court liaison. My position was created this year to serve as a liaison between

the court and ASCSU and also to advo-cate and assist students filing appeals and going through university disci-pline process in conjunction with Stu-dent Legal Services.

The liaison position was created because of limitations faced by Su-preme Court justices, leaving them unable to provide students with infor-mation about the judicial process. An ASCSU Supreme Court Justice must first be impartial and diligent in all of their rulings, and are expected to step down from a case if their ability to be impartial is jeopardized. They must also avoid impropriety and the appear-ance of impropriety, which is a fancy way of saying that a justice must avoid anything that would damage their image. Justices must avoid any extra-judicial activities that might create a conflict of interest and refrain from all ASCSU political activity, and must es-pecially avoid showing support for any political campaigns.

If anyone in the student body wants to know more about the court or is going through any sort of disciplin-ary process within the university and needs assistance, you are more than welcome to contact me by sending by an email at [email protected] or stopping by the ASCSU Su-preme Court office in the LSC Tuesdays 2-3 p.m.

Keith Patton

Wreck - It Ralph, rated ‘G’ for gamer approved

After the deplorable Halloween season that visits every year and brings with it some of the worst movies to ever grace a screen, movies have started picking up steam for the fall and winter season.

Instead of playing “guess the cult,” many of the newer films such as “Argo,” “Skyfall,” and my personal favorite, “Wreck-It Ralph,” can all provide a wel-come distraction over the break before the storm approaches and everyone begins to stock up on canned goods for the coming finals.

Of all of the amazing new movies that are out though, “Wreck-It Ralph” holds a special place in my heart be-cause it illustrates the fact that the older you get, the better kid’s movies

become.“Wreck-It Ralph,” simplified, is

a movie made for gamers. It’s full of gamer fan service that’ll bring back the days that many kids spent wasting their allowance in an arcade to play games that ran on stone-age technology, com-pared to the beloved modern shooters like “Call of Duty” or “Halo.”

Like most good Disney movies, though, it lends itself to the special kind of originality that reaches out to both kids and adults alike. Beyond merely invoking nostalgia, it creates a story that can appeal to the best in all of us.

A good children’s movie is not the kind of movie that is so overtly moral-istic that it becomes disgusting and off putting. “Wreck-It Ralph” explores the desire that most people have at some point in their life to escape from their day-to-day schedule and become a larger-than-life hero worthy of praise and fame. In Ralph’s villain crisis he learns to discover what it means to be a hero even if part of that is as simple as protecting those around him and mak-ing them happy.

Through exploring the many game machines — whether it be something as timeless as Pacman or classic rac-ing games — Disney once again man-ages to do what they do best and take a child’s environment and bring in adult

themes in the interesting and unex-plored world of arcade games.

The movie itself does have some downfalls — arguably the greatest be-ing Sarah Silverman’s voicing of the young child racer Venellope. She does a wonderful job capturing how simul-taneously annoying and endearing a young child can be, but even so by the end you may find yourself wanting to throw her out a window (if you didn’t already want to).

The movie also attempts to make some vague political commentary about how violent modern games have become that is completely over-shadowed by the more important story of Ralph’s self-realization. The commentary falls flat throughout and while I’m not going to take the time to argue the implications, if you’re going to make a statement, it’s best to make it clear.

As a whole, though, if you’re look-ing to spend a few bucks to see a good movie with your family this Thanksgiv-ing, go check out “Wreck-It Ralph.” The beautiful graphics and likable charac-ters make for an enjoyable experience that might just bring out the nerd in you.

Brian Fosdick is a junior journalism major. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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NorthernColorado

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Megan Plourde.354 hitting percent-age (2nd MW)1.54 blocks per set (2nd MW)

Breion Paige.355 hitting per-centage (1st MW)

1.03 blocks per set (9th MW)

Brianna Strong.366 hitting percentage (1st Big Sky)0.83 blocks per set

Andrea Spaustat.345 hitting percentage

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The question of whether CSU should become a 100 percent smoke-free cam-pus has become a topic of discussion for the Associated Students of CSU after the student Senate was presented with data showing that 53 percent of students and 63 percent of faculty and staff would pre-

fer a smoke-free campus policy. The date comes from an ASCSU sur-

vey conducted last spring that centered on policies regarding tobacco use on campus. Eight-hundred-and-six students and 1,986 faculty and staff participated in the survey.

By Tina SuSmanThe McClatchy Tribune

NEW YORK — A 77-year-old grandfather who slipped on wet stairs inside his beachfront hous-ing complex became the 43rd New York City resident to die as a result of Super-storm Sandy, whose effects continued to be felt across the region Monday as basic services and public trans-portation crept toward nor-malcy.

More than 1,800 city res-idents remained in shelters, unable to return to homes damaged by the storm or still without heat and elec-tricity. But for the first time since Sandy made land-fall Oct. 29, the number of households without power in affected states dropped below 100,000. As of Monday morning, the Department of Energy said 88,882 custom-ers in New Jersey, New York, and West Virginia remained in the dark. New York was the worst affected, with 79,744 outages reported.

Officials of the Long Is-land Power Authority said they expected that 99 per-cent of their customers would have power back by the end of the day Tuesday.

In another post-Sandy first, officials Monday re-opened to limited traffic the Gov. Hugh L. Carey Tunnel — formerly known as the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel — a major artery under the East River connecting Man-hattan to Brooklyn. Workers will continue trying to repair

damage from 43 million gal-lons of salt water that poured into the country’s longest under-river vehicle passage.

“It was filled floor to ceil-ing for more than a mile with water and debris,” said the chairman of the city’s Metro-politan Transit Authority, Jo-seph Lhota. “No one has ever faced a challenge like this.”

Limited train service re-sumed linking Manhattan with New Jersey and Long Island. In New Jersey, gas rationing that had been in effect for more than a week was to be lifted Tuesday.

There was no word on when New York City’s gas rationing would be lifted, or how long it might be before residents of the Rockaways — where 29,000 buildings remained in the dark Mon-day — would have electric-ity. The narrow peninsula is surrounded by Jamaica Bay on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other, and the salt water that flooded base-ments there caused damage that is slowing efforts to re-store electricity to the area.

The latest storm victim, Albert McSwain, lived in a housing project in the Rock-aways that was among those left without power. Accord-ing to his daughter, Allison Lockett, who lived with him, the two went out for a walk Oct. 31. When they returned to the building, its stairway dark and wet, Lockett told her father to wait while she ran upstairs to get a flash-light to guide them to their apartment.

Before she could return,

he had slipped. Neighbors found him with wounds to his head and his body, par-alyzed from the neck down. McSwain, a retired custo-dian at the New York Police Department Academy, died of his injuries at a hospital Saturday.

In announcing Mc-Swain’s death, police also released a detailed account-ing of some of the rescues that took place at the height of the storm, as electri-cal transformers exploded and dumped live wires into fast-rising water.

“Boats with and without powerful motors became useless and ineffective after some time due to the large debris, the strong current and depth of the water, and the small streets that were difficult to navigate,” said Sgt. Anthony Lisi of the po-lice department’s Emergen-cy Services Squad 5, which includes Staten Island. On Staten Island alone, more than 1,100 water rescues took place during and im-mediately after Sandy. The borough suffered the most casualties of any in the city, losing 23 residents.

“Additionally, live power lines were falling down into the water, making rescues extremely hazardous to first responders,” Lisi said.

Conditions worsened and each time a rescue boat arrived to fetch someone who had called 911 for help, “another 10 families on the block who needed to be evacuated would ask for as-sistance as well,” Lisi said.

In NYC 43rd life claimed by Superstorm Sandy

“Additionally, live power lines were falling down into the water, making rescues extremely

hazardous to first responders.”Sgt. Anthony Lisi | Emergency Services Squard 5

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