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With the an-nouncement of the new on-campus stadium, there remains one very important ques-tion: What do we do with Hughes? The administra-tion has no plans as of yet.

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Giant Paintball Course

Sitting at the bottom of Hughes Stadium is roughly 6400 square yards of vacant space, which affords some extreme fl exibility when it comes to inventive paintball course layouts. The sheer size of the fi eld also allows for there to be a massive number of play-ers, too. Rocky Mountain Shoot-out anyone?

Concert Amphi-theater

Think of it as the Red Rocks of Fort Collins. Lots of space on the fi eld means lots of space for bigger stages, bigger effects and bigger speakers. And who knows? Maybe it will let ASAP bring in a band that people will actually go see.

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FieldSince we are providing the CSU Football Team with a shiny new stadium, and since they don’t appear to have made much use of the Indoor Training Facility, it may be a good idea to have them practice in Hughes all the time so that they can “get used” to playing in a stadium. It’d be less expensive than building a new training facility, anyway.

Things we could use

Hughes for:

Richard and Julie McDonald stand in front of the UCA because her daughter plays trombone in the CSU Marching Band. They were harrassed when they attended the CSU v North Dakota game at Hughes Stadium to watch their daughter march at halftime.

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Football fan behavior in question

ASCSU

Drunk bus to be made permanentBy CARRIE MOBLEYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Late Night Bus System

is being re-examined in order to improve numbers and to make it a permanent addition to services for CSU students, according to Associated Stu-dents of CSU President Regina Martel.

Martel added that the bus system, which is still in its try-out year, took approximately 1,254 students home July 2011 and 1,289 in August 2012. On average, that’s about 160 peo-ple per night of operation.

By comparison, RamRide drives about 400 students home per night of operation, according to ASCSU reports.

“The (bus) numbers aren’t bad by any means,” Martel said. “Especially since the pro-gram is still in its fi rst year, but we defi nitely are working to improve them and keep this program going long-term.”

The program was created on a one-year contract. Now that contract is up for review by both ASCSU and Transfort to determine its effi ciency and effectiveness. Transfort is willing to renew the contract to keep the late night bus sys-tem operating, according to Transfort Manager Kurt Ra-venschlag.

“We are currently budget-ing our portion of the con-tract,” he said. “Given that ASCSU continues to contrib-ute the same amount, we want to continue renewing it.”

The system, which con-sists of two routes along

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The Green Route of the bus sys-tem runs from downtown to Taft Hill, Drake, Mulberry and College.

The Gold route of the bus system runs from downtown to Laurel, Eliza-beth, Prospect and College.

Departures occur every fi fteen minutes from the corner of Mountain and Remington Street on Friday and Saturday nights, starting at 11:30 p.m.

LATE BUS?

By ALLISON SYLTEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

When CSU President Tony Frank made his decision about the proposed on-campus stadium, he wasn’t thinking about the CSU students know today.

Instead, he wrote in a 3,321 word campus email on Monday that he was thinking of a “signifi cantly larger” uni-versity 50 years from now –– one with “stunning” research, a diverse student population and, as its focal point, an on-campus stadium.

“I think a well-maintained stadium located on the main campus, now with decades of tradition behind it, would be a great benefi t to the university,” Frank wrote. “And so, with that long view in mind, I support our moving forward to attempt to build such a facility.”

This is the recommendation Frank will make to the CSU System Board of Governors at 8 a.m. on Thursday, after nine months of debate and delibera-tion and spending hundreds of thou-

sands of dollars in consulting fees, all to realize a dream that Athletics Director Jack Graham pitched to Frank.

Frank’s recommendation, however, is nuanced. The university must be able to garner enough private support to supplement half the cost of the esti-mated $250 million project.

And if this $125 million fundraising goal is not met within two years, Frank explained that he will have no choice but to begin focusing the university’s energies on renovating Hughes Sta-dium. The 54-year-old structure needs at least $30 million in renovations over the next 10 years to remain operable.

“It is my belief that if we have not identifi ed a viable fi nancing plan for the new stadium to take forward within two years, we will have to suspend these efforts and make some investments in assuring that Hughes Stadium remains a viable venue for Colorado State foot-ball,” Frank wrote.

The initial charge of the Stadium Advisory Committee –– created by

Frank in January –– was to present to him some sort of recommendation on whether to move forward with the pro-posal. But this became little more than feasibility report on the stadium as the process wore on.

“(in this process) you not only need to dream big, you need to question, you need to challenge,” Frank said during the Stadium Advisory Committee’s fi rst meeting on Feb. 3.

Graham offered words of caution.“The last thing I want through this

process is that it polarizes the commu-nity,” he said.

Despite his wish, the stadium pro-posal nevertheless did contribute to a signifi cant amount of controversy. An anti-stadium group, Save Our Stadium: Hughes, assembled community mem-bers concerned about its potential to increase traffi c, noise and commotion while plummeting property values, academic culture and overall relations with the university.

Some alumni, however, rallied to-

gether and formed a pro-stadium group called Be Bold, complete with its own set of arguments to move the proposal forward: that donations to CSU would increase, alumni would become more connected to their alma mater and the university’s national image would be polished.

Town hall meetings, campus pre-sentations and public forums, provided a venue for community members to hash out their differences, often in op-position to the stadium.

Sixty-seven percent of CSU stu-dents are opposed to the stadium, ac-cording to an Associated Students of CSU survey released this summer.

Frank addressed the polarization that had taken place over the past nine months in his email to campus.

“As is, in my opinion, too often the case in our modern discourse, the middle ground has been squeezed out of many of these arguments by polariz-ing rhetoric that tries to force one into picking an either/or outcome selected from the extremes of possibilities.”

Frank fi nished his letter with a call to focus on the other pressing issues to the university.

“Tomorrow, CSU will, as usual, fo-cus its attention on the reasons we ex-ist: teaching and learning, research and discovery and creativity, service and engagement, and application,” Frank wrote. “Preparing for tomorrow. Ideas put into action. Lives changed.

That, simply put, is the focus of a land-grant university. And tomorrow, Colorado State — stadium discussion aside — will be back at it.”

Editor in Chief Allison Sylte can be reached at [email protected].

Project will move forward if private funding can be secured for half

By ELISABETH WILLNERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Richard and Julie McDonald went to the CSU versus North Da-kota football game excited to watch their daughter perform with the CSU Marching Band.

But by the end of the game, they would question their daughter’s choice in schools.

The couple’s daughter, Kaelin, had provided them with student tickets: her own and one from a friend. As the couple sat between rows of students, what should have been a proud mo-ment became an ordeal.

Over the course of the game, the couple said, they were pushed out of their seats, kicked and insulted by the surrounding crowd.

Crowd members took Richard Mc-Donald’s cane, which he uses for his arthritis, and pushed him out of his seat. The same group later kicked and bruised Julie McDonald’s foot, which was in a cast due to a broken ankle.

“We are shocked and disturbed by this behavior,” the couple wrote in a statement following the incident. “We

left the game after the halftime show and do not feel comfortable coming back to another Rams game.”

The incident fi ts into a pattern of negative fan behavior which a newly-organized CSU task force is trying to curb.

“While generally our game day crowds are well-behaved, we do sometimes get reports of fan behavior – by both students and non-students – that sometimes crosses the line,” CSU Spokesman Mike Hooker wrote in an email to the Collegian. “While this in-cident is concerning in and of itself, it also speaks to a larger concern about some fan behavior that isn’t what we, as Ram fans, are all about.”

The task force, called the Task Force for Fan Experience, is com-posed of 14 members including rep-resentatives from CSUPD, ASCSU,

Student Affairs, Athletics and the CSU Health Network.

Tony Frank began considering creating a task force at the beginning of the fall semester, following reports of Rams fans chanting vulgar slogans at games. The incident at the NDSU game added to existing concerns and provided context for the kinds of is-sues the task force will address, ac-cording to Hooker.

Currently, the organizations re-sponsible for security at football games are Landmark, a contracted event staff group, and student moni-tors with the ASCSU sponsored group Positive Impact. Neither intervened during the North Dakota incident.

“During the game, no one reported anything about this particular behav-ior and our security staff didn’t witness it, so there was not an opportunity for them to intervene,” Hooker said.

The couple said they didn’t call the police at the game because they didn’t feel the students needed to be arrested.

“A police record can be really

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To notify stadium offi cials of problems in the stands, students can call 970-988-9886. The number is subject to change, but will be displayed on the video board at games.

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“As is, in my opinion, too often the case in our modern discourse, the middle ground has been squeezed out of many of these arguments by polariz-ing rhetoric that tries to force one into

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Art sculpture graduate student Anthony Gunteen welds the base for a sculpture inside the Visual Arts building Monday af-ternoon. Gunteen, who creates metal sculptures, works as much as possi-ble to create works of art to fulfi ll his degree. Photo by Dylan Langille.

Homecoming parade will cause street closures

Colorado State Universi-ty’s Homecoming and Fam-ily Weekend parade will be held on Friday, Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

The parade will start at the intersection of How-es Street and Oak Street in downtown Fort Collins be-fore travelling around the Oval and across the Lory

Student Center Plaza, before fi nally ending on the West Lawn of the LSC.

Beginning Friday at noon, streets in the staging area and the parade route will be closed. Cars that are parked in the staging area will be towed beginning at noon on Friday.

Streets impacted by the noon closing include How-es Street (Mountain Avenue to Oak Street), Oak Street (between Howes Street and Sherwood Street), Sherwood Street (Mountain Avenue to

Oak Street) and the inter-sections of Oak Street and Meldrum Street.

A Centri-Bration of Entomology Oct. 6

A highlight of CSU Homecoming, the Cen-ti-Bration of Entomology, will occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, in the Plant Sciences Building.

Scheduled between the Homecoming 5K and the Rams football game, the

event will feature a multi-tude of insects and arthro-pods for viewing and hold-ing. This includes a giant African millipede, Chilean rose hair tarantulas and gi-ant mantids.

The interactive bug dis-play is being put on for the community to mark the 100-year anniversary for CSU’s Gillette Entomology Club, the oldest student group on campus.

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downtown Fort Collins, was part of a program largely created by the last ASCSU administration, and put into effect under Martel.

“We actually had ASCSU members canvas all of Old Town to try to create this program,” Martel said. “We had them surveying people to determine where people like to go and how this sys-tem could best serve the stu-dents of CSU. There was a lot

of work put into this and we hope to keep it going for as long as possible.”

The bus system, which consists of two routes, hits most major roads in the downtown area, such as Mulberry Street, Taft Hill Road, College Avenue, Eliza-beth Street and Laurel Street, and can be accessed every 15 minutes on the corner of Mountain Avenue and Rem-ington Street.

According to Martel, ASCSU intends to improve

the sustainability of this program by improving marketing strategies and communication with the larger Fort Collins commu-nity.

“We’ve been commu-nicating with the Fort Col-lins Police Department a lot on this front,” Martel said. “We’ve also been talking to the city council and the Downtown Business Associ-ation on ways to improve the bus system and how it serves the community.”

Transfort is not currently considering adding any ser-vice improvements, but they are considering moving its start time from 11:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the request of student government.

“We do need to con-tinue to think about the money aspect of that and where that money would be coming from,” Martel said.

ASCSU Beat reporter Carrie Mobley can be reached at [email protected].

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damaging to somebody’s record and that’s not a decision I want to make,” Richard McDonald said.

Following the incident, the couple wrote an open letter to Colorado State Uni-versity addressing their ex-perience and met with Nik Olsen, the assistant director of Administrative Commu-nications, on Sept. 10.

Their daughter also posted a note on the class of 2015 Facebook page asking students to be more respectful, which led to a personal apology from Dean of Students, Jody Donovan. Kaelin McDon-ald said she hoped stu-dents would read her post.

“What I really want is for people to respect each other,” McDonald said. “No matter what age. No matter where you sit, no matter how old you are, no matter how much you drink, just leave each oth-er alone.”

Julie and Richard Mc-Donald hope that their sto-

ry will grow beyond what happened: They would like to see the atmosphere of football games change.

During the game, they noticed that in the stands around them students were passing around bot-tles of what “wasn’t water,” and chanting “F*** you” at the other team.

“It wasn’t just a few people; it was the whole section,” Richard McDon-ald said.

But in spite of their negative experience, the McDonalds didn’t think that what happened to them represented all of CSU or the Fort Collins community, which has generally welcomed them.

“We were disappointed at how we got treated, but I can see now that it wasn’t a reflection of the whole student body,” Richard Mc-Donald said. “It was a re-flection of a certain group of people who had too much room to party.”

News Editor Elisabeth Willner can be reached at [email protected].

BY AMANDA ZETAHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

This past week, the En-glish department at CSU posted an ad urging quali-fied professors to apply for a job as a Pre-1900 Amer-ican Literature assistant professor.

The qualifications en-tailed: A “Ph.D. in English or American Studies or closely related area award-ed between 2010 and time of appointment.”

“It was not ideal lan-guage for us to approve, it should have read en-try-level, because that was the English department’s intention,” said Diana Pri-eto, director for the Office of Equal Opportunity at CSU, which approves ad postings.

An abundance of pro-tests soon came after the initial release of the ad, forcing the Office of Equal Opportunity to reword the job ad. The ad angered many adjunct professors with qualified master’s de-grees that somehow fell in the window before 2010.

This is where the job ad becomes discriminatory. The fact that the depart-ment asked specifically for professors with degrees awarded in 2010 and soon-er excludes a large majori-ty of interested applicants.

“Last week, in light of

the response to our initial ad, we examined how we could better describe the parameters of our search,” said Louann Reid, chair of the CSU English depart-ment in a statement. “We posted an updated posi-tion announcement that informs applicants that the position is entry-level and removes the restric-tion date of degree. We in-vite all qualified and inter-ested applicants to apply for the position.”

After the upset over the job ad, it has been altered to avoid discrimination against specific adjunct professors. It now reads “entry-level” so that all ad-junct and interested pro-fessors are able to apply.

“We misstepped, but this was a good learning point. It shouldn’t have been approved by my of-fice,” Prieto said.

Jeffrey Amparo, office manager of the English department, declined to comment.

Adjunct professors are temporary hires without tenure at the university. The number of adjunct professors is actually on the rise at CSU, as budget cuts continue to limit re-sources available.

Student Life Beat Re-porter Amanda Zetah can be reached at [email protected].

English Dept. faces backlash for discriminatory adAd worded poorly, excluded quali�ed adjunct professors

The Late Night Bus makes its way to one of the several bus stops around Fort Collins during a snowy night last year.KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN

By PAUL WESTThe McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — Many voters think news organiza-tions have given too much attention to Mitt Romney’s surreptitiously recorded remarks about the “47 per-cent,” a new national opin-ion survey found.

At the same time, the new poll by the indepen-dent Pew Research Center confirms what politicians in both parties have said: Most voters had a negative reac-tion to what the Republican presidential candidate had to say at his private fundrais-ing event.

Two out of three voters knew that Romney was the source of comments that 47 percent of the population is dependent on government and pays no federal income taxes, according to the poll. The question was open-end-ed: Respondents were asked if they happened to know who had made the remarks.

Most of those who cor-rectly identified the GOP candidate also said they had a negative reaction to his remarks (55 percent). Democrats and those with lower family incomes (under $30,000 a year) were over-whelmingly negative. A ma-

jority of independent voters (55 percent) also reacted negatively. Most Republi-cans (54 percent) had a pos-itive reaction, according to the survey, released Monday by the independent polling organization.

The poll was conducted between Sept. 27 and Sept. 30, a period that coincided with swing-state airing of an Obama attack ad on Rom-ney’s remarks. It employs Romney’s recorded voice as the soundtrack, while black-and-white still pictures of individuals — meant to sym-bolize those he was speaking about — flash by on the TV

screen.Though the poll makes

clear that Romney’s words have sunk in, it also found that a plurality of registered voters believe the news me-dia have gone overboard in covering the story.

Nearly half of those who knew Romney made the remarks — 49 percent — thought that his words had been given too much cov-erage. Another 28 percent thought the media had got it about right, while 13 percent said Romney’s words had re-ceived too little coverage.

All told, the fallout from the remark resembled the

impact of negative ads: Vot-ers often recoil at them, but they tend to absorb their message nonetheless.

An unrelated finding in the poll may well reflect the intensely negative tone of this year’s presidential con-test. Less than half of the U.S. electorate (46 percent) gave Obama a grade of “A” or “B” for his efforts in con-vincing them to vote for him; four years ago, that figure was sharply higher (65 per-cent graded him with an “A” or “B”).

Romney got even lower marks, with only 31 percent of voters grading him “A” or “B.” His efforts to persuade voters were more in line with grades that were awarded in 2008 to the campaign of Republican nominee John McCain (34 percent) and in 1996 to GOP nominee Bob Dole (29 percent).

The Pew poll also found that Democratic voters are giving Obama higher marks (78 percent gave him an “A” or “B”) than Republicans are grading Romney (62 percent gave him an “A” or “B”).

The poll’s margin of error was 3.7 percentage points, with higher error margins for smaller subsets of respon-dents, such as registered voterss.

Romney’s ‘47%’ remarks overserved but damaging

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to the crowd at Westerville South High School in Westerville, Ohio on Wednesday, September 26, 2012.

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The issue of the new stadium has been beaten to death over these past months. There are large movements both for and against building the new home for rams football. In my opinion, it’s a poorly thought out plan.

I’m not saying the plan for a new stadium isn’t feasible. It is. According to President Tony Frank’s requirements:

The stadium wouldn't be placed on existing open green space.

It wouldn't hinder views of the mountains.

The committee take into "seri-ous" account any impact on neighbors adjacent to or near a new stadium.

Funding the project would not rely on appropriation, tuition, fees or taxes.

The project is incredibly feasible. But if there is anything I’ve learned in my engineering courses it’s that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Facts. I know they are ignored a lot but I am pretty fond of them. We hang out sometimes.

The new stadium will cost more than $250 million and seat around 40,000 people. To renovate the old sta-

dium to hold the extra 10,000 people the new stadium would hold would cost around $100 million. Average at-tendance according to www.csurams.com is, rounding generously, 24,000 attendees.

That means we are building a larg-er stadium when the one we have now doesn’t even fill up.

Now realistically, how many of you picked what college you wanted to go to because of the football stadium? How many of you would want to go to a different university if they had a shin-ier stadium?

I could understand choosing a university for the football team if they actually won games and you liked foot-ball, but if you go to CSU, I’m assuming that isn’t why you are now a student.

One of the projected areas to build this stadium is the southwest corner of campus. You know where that is because it’s probably where you park, which brings me to practicality.

You want to take away parking in an area that desperately needs more in order to build a stadium that will at times be full of drunk people on cam-pus next to the underclassmen dorms? That couldn’t possibly cause problems.

I understand that bringing the sta-dium on campus is also a way to get more students to attend the games, and maybe in small numbers it would work.

But it is also true that if people want to see something, they will. For Broncos games, fans fly in from out of state. They drive hours and hours just to see one game. If 15,000 more stu-dents wanted to see the football game instead of doing something else, they would.

Another issue I have is that sure,

the stadium would be built by spon-sors, but will they be the ones paying to maintain it? It’s bigger than our cur-rent stadium and will be more costly to maintain.

Generally, I wouldn’t really mind a new stadium. It still wouldn’t make me want to go to a football game, but I wouldn’t be so against it if it wasn’t for location.

You know who else lives near that southwest corner of campus besides underclassmen? Thousands of people in houses and apartments. With cars. Who like being able to park them.

The idea that the stadium will bring in new money for the school is silly to me. Maybe for the first few games alumni might want to come see their old team play. Maybe. But then the ‘new’ effect wears off and all you have is one huge empty stadium right next to everything for most of the year. If illicit happenings don’t occur in the stadium in the off season I will be shocked.

According to those random signs I saw in Weber, 70 percent of the cam-pus is against the new stadium. Presi-dent Tony Frank obviously has the final say, but that is a lot of people against it; a lot of people paying to attend this university.

To sum up, CSU will be fine either way. We are a strong university with some of the finest programs in the nation and whether or not we have a stadium close to class isn’t a big deal in the long run.

But in the short run, I’m not its big-gest fan by far.

Sarah Romer is a senior electrical engineering major. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

Yesterday our campus received Tony Frank’s ultimate decision re-garding the construction of an on-campus stadium. After nine months of careful planning and consideration, the president an-nounced his support for the new stadium, a stadium that the Edito-rial Board has endorsed.

For a process that has been claimed to be transparent through-out the decision, there has been little to no access to public officials making the decisions since the sta-dium was first proposed.

Tony Frank issued his procla-mation in the standard way that students have become accustomed to interacting with their president — through an email so long that many college students have neither the time nor determination to scroll to

the bottom.At the end of Frank’s wordy

email, though, many questions re-mained completely unanswered.

First of all, the stadium is condi-tional because we still have no idea if we’re even going to be able to get enough funding for the project.

Tony Frank, if you’re not confi-

dent that you’ll receive enough pri-vate funding for the stadium itself, how do you expect to come up with an extra $30 million for a parking facility or $16 million for an alumni welcome center?

Frank claims that no student tui-tion or fees or proceeds from any tax will be used to finance the stadium, but doesn’t go into any detail as to alternative sources of revenue other than philanthropic gifts.

After nine months, why don’t we have a plan for what we’re going to do with Hughes stadium? Frank’s email only says that’s a “discussion for another day.”

Yesterday was the day for discus-sion, the day to reveal all the plans. Yesterday didn’t look like the result of nine months of careful decision making.

Those of you who fol-low national news may be aware of a stunning victory by the students of Quebec to keep their col-lege tuitions the lowest in North America.

Through two straight seasons of creative pro-test, whether it be picket-ing the streets en masse, or wearing squares or red felt to symbolize their pro-test of rising tuition costs, the students managed to keep their tuition the low-est in North America.

I suspect they always will, in fact, not because Quebec is a godless so-cialist Canadian province, but because Quebec’s stu-dents symbolize some-thing that college students can be and that is peace-ful protesters in search of change.

I’d like to point out that even before this pro-test, Quebec had the low-est tuition in North Amer-ica because they kept this kind of pressure on the powers that be. Their tuition fees for the year 2012 would be on average around $2,168 per year. I would also like to note that you WISH your tui-tion was only $2,168 per year. You may be thinking this is great for the stu-dents of Quebec, but let’s look at this in context of our own lives.

I found it humorous how easy it is to look up how the tuition fees of Colorado State University have grown over the past 60 years. There’s a very nice chart posted on the CSU website that displays just how much we are get-ting shafted.

We were paying what Quebec students are pay-ing now, in the year 2000. That may make it seem much better than it is, un-til you realize that tuition has been raised over 220 percent since that time. In the 2010-2011 school years we paid $5,256 in tuition each year. Even more humorous is the fact

that our student fees are around $1,728, a number much closer to the num-ber which the Quebec students are paying for their tuition.

So you have the num-bers and the context, but I suppose my underlying message here is that this is insane. I am not mere-ly lamenting the dying of the light, of the days when college students stood up for their rights to be able to afford higher education without selling their dog, their sister and their future to the money grubbing institutions that colleges have become.

I am saying it is time for CSU students to stand up and do something about the fact that we are getting taken advantage of.

Regardless of what school of thought you come from, it’s hard to deny that education is the key to a brighter fu-ture. Education opens so many doors for students and allows for a more compassionate and un-derstanding society.

Lack of education breeds hatred, ignorance and fear of that which people don’t understand. This isn’t a simple fight for whether you can af-ford to get a better job; this is a fight for whether you would like to see a better society.

For many of you, this is not the first time you’ve heard that higher educa-tion is the fastest growing cost in America. The cost of obtaining a college de-gree has grown 1,120 per-cent since 1978.

The question each person should be ask-ing themselves is: Are we prepared to deal with the implications of making higher education inac-cessible for many Ameri-cans? I am not prepared to deal with this fact and I don’t think any of us should be.

From this day on you will be able to recognize me around campus be-cause I’ll be wearing a red felt square. Let’s speak with our actions, let’s speak with our words, and let’s speak with a voice that announces that we are done paying more.

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

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Waited nine months for that?

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By BRIAN FOSDICK

By SARAH ROMER

Battle tuition fee increases or be consumed by them

“A�er nine months, why don’t we have a plan for what we’re

going to do with Hughes stadium?”

�is used to be a nice neighborhood

“I am saying it is time for CSU students to stand up and do something about

the fact that we are getting taken advantage of.”

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Have we gotten so afraid of offend-ing people that we have stopped saying anything of consequence?

I think we have. With every speech you hear — especially by the politicians of modern day — you will hear some very “inclusive language,” but you may also notice that within all of that talk of making everyone feel special, they haven’t really said anything.

They can’t take a stand on anything because, Lord forbid, they might of-fend someone, and that would mean losing votes. And that would be the end of the world.

So what is the difference between using “inclusive language” and being politically correct? I’m here to tell you right now: there isn’t one.

For those of you that may not be familiar with inclusive language, it means just what common sense tells you it does: use language that will in-clude everyone, and avoid using words or phrases that leave people out.

It sounds good — in theory. However, in practice it has gotten to the point of stu-pidity.

“Hey, guys.” It’s a common phrase ut-

tered by men and women alike on a daily basis, no? And yet inclusive language tells me that I just excluded all females.

How about the term “sportsmanlike conduct?” Inclusive language is telling me that this is a term that can only be ap-plied to men. “All men are created equal” means that women are chopped liver. Does anyone else find this ridiculous?

As a female, never have any of the above phrases offended me, and I don’t think I’m alone.

Can we take a step back and learn to actually say something of conse-quence, instead of being so concerned with being politically correct?

We have been preached to by every-one and their mother to the point that we are expected to be tolerant of every-thing except intolerance. Things that I don’t agree with, I am at least expected to be tolerant of.

Who says? Who was the first to say that tolerance is the new black? Be-cause I don’t agree.

I admire people that will take a stand. I admire people that will defend their beliefs. I admire people that will say what they want, even if that means excluding people.

Politicians are not the only ones that have failed to take a stand on anything. We, as the American people, are so afraid of another person taking offense to something that comes out of our mouths that we have become a people with a language of fluff vocabulary.

Why do you say “um” and “ah” and “like” every other word? Because you have been trained to think about every-thing twice before you say it, to make sure it’s inoffensive.

I, for one, would love it if someone ac-

tually said what’s on their mind. If some-one out there would actually say what they think, instead of what they have been trained and programmed to say.

Screw inclusive language and po-litical correctness. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

As we watch the politicians on TV recite their speeches that have been combed over again and again in the interest of gaining votes, remember that they aren’t the only ones that have failed to say anything worth listen-ing to. If you want to make an impact on anyone, stop walking on eggshells around people’s feelings.

I was listening to a man not too long ago that was a newly converted Chris-tian. He had been a Muslim, growing up in his father’s mosque and facing Mecca when he prayed. Then he met a friend who showed up wearing a “Jesus Saves” T-shirt when he asked him to church.

He later said, “I’m not a Christian because my friend tiptoed around my feelings. I am a Christian because he confronted me.”

Confront people. Maybe they’ll take offense, but is that really the end of the world? Worst case scenario of saying what you want is that people’s feelings might be bruised. Best case scenario: You can make a difference in someone’s life.

Don’t be afraid to take a stand and defend that stand. Say things that are worth listening to. Leave political cor-rectness to the politicians.

Brittany Jordan is a sophomore Psy-chology major. Her column appears ev-ery other Tuesday in the Collegian. Let-ters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

By NICOLE FRAIZER

By BRITTANY JORDAN

Yays and Nays

OPINION TUESDAYCOLLEGIAN

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 |

Discounts should be for all service, not just military

Yay | to homecoming. Come for the bonfire, stay for the new stadium. Hail to our alma mater.

Nay | to CSU losing again. They can break our quarterback’s collarbone, but not our spirit.

Yay | to DU hosting the debate. Welcome to Colorado, presidential hopefuls. We want answers.

Nay | to closing down a huge section of I-25 for the presidential debate. Traffic’s bad enough as it is.

Yay | to getting a new stadium for our football team! All we ask in return is a win or two.

NAY | to the new Myspace. This social media site won’t go away. Basically it’s a zombie. Myspace will eat your brain.

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Temple Grandin wrong about disability prideGUEST COLUMN

Leave political correctness to politicians

“Who receives discounts should not be determined by the riskiness of the job. If you can’t put a price on a life, then you can’t put discounts on it either.”

Every time I see a sign taped to the cash register or to windows of businesses that says something along the lines “10 percent military discount,” a wave of in-dignation passes through me.

I do not think that discounts from business-es should be restricted to military personnel. Let me explain.

First off, I believe when businesses, such as Banana Republic, Lowe’s, Apple and Disney World hand out military discounts, they are do-ing two things. They are establishing an uncouth definition of what it means to serve this coun-try and encouraging a hierarchy that discredits the work of other heroes in our country — treating military personnel better based on their willing-ness to volunteer.

It isn’t that I am ap-preciative of the risks they have taken. It’s that I recognize that the mili-tary is not the only group of people serving this na-tion.

I am advocating for reconstructing our defi-nition of what it means to serve this country. I am thinking of the word “serve” in the sense of yielding a service or product for others, not limiting it to just those who have enlisted in the military.

I figure that if we were to think of it in those terms, we would discover that millions of people are serving their country; millions of Americans who are equally deserv-ing of discounts as any soldier.

This also brings into question where our val-ues lie, or in other words, what does it mean to be hero in this country? The United States func-tions through a military lens, where our fears and hubris have limited our scope of heroes to be only soldiers. And I am not saying that they aren’t in some regard. I am just disappointed that our teachers, firefighters and nurses aren’t held with the same esteem.

Personally, I believe that a collaboration of education, patience and

an open mind is key to im-proving a lot of the world’s problems. I think by glorify-ing the military profession with discounts is reiterat-ing the long-held notion in this country that a strong military presence is the way to go about encouraging change. To put it more sim-ply, encouraging a forceful approach over what I be-lieve to be a stronger and powerful, and perhaps more peaceful one.

I feel that if any Country Buffet or 4’ x 8’ discount is to be given at all, the firefight-er who worked around the clock to maintain the raging summer flames deserves it as much as a single mother in the Army.

It isn’t just a matter of “supporting the troops,” re-spect, or debts to society at this point — the system re-wards, as I said, individuals on their willingness to vol-unteer for one job instead of another. In other words, by not paying homage to other professionals in this country who do equally valid work, we create a dangerous hi-erarchy in our system that treats people as if they are more deserving of discounts than another who, due to medical reasons, couldn’t enlist or was more passion-ate about serving their coun-try as a counselor at the pub-lic middle school.

Businesses are stratify-ing our society (further than it already is), with military discounts by putting the group of individuals who serve in the military at the cusp, based on what I deem to be irrelevant factors — such as the riskiness of the job, annual pay and respect.

Those are not justifiable reasons to offer a military discount. So not handing out discounts isn’t a sign of disrespect; it’s a sign of unequal recognition of all. From my standpoint, enlist-ing in the military was a per-sonal choice, just as much as it was for everyone else to choose another profession. Besides, who decided that if a business doesn’t offer the 10 percent military discount they don’t support troops?

We should not offer a 10 percent discount off the price of a movie ticket as a consolation discount for volunteering for the military. If a discount for those who have chosen risky profes-sions is insisted upon, then we need to offer it to all or none.

Who receives discounts should not be determined by the riskiness of the job. If you can’t put a price on a life, then you can’t put discounts on it either.

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

On Saturday, Colorado’s 1st An-nual Disability Pride Parade & Music Festival was held in Fort Collins. The keynote speaker, CSU professor Dr. Temple Grandin, did not seem to fully understand the purpose — promoting disability pride.

Grandin spoke for 40 minutes about the need for people with disabili-ties to focus on what they “can do” and not primarily on their disabilities.

Disability pride is about working against socially systemic shame by em-bracing our disability identities. Only then can we maximize our potential.

While sharply criticizing the value of the liberal arts, Grandin failed to rec-ognize twenty-first century social con-straints on disabled people today.

Grandin applied a 1950s perspec-tive on disability that is reminiscent of the old “pull yourself up by your boot-straps” mentality.

She told everyone at the event about how she just had to “go through the doors” of opportunity, working in small jobs before building her way up

to where she is today.The “doors of opportunity” she

spoke of are no longer so easily entered, as any college student looking for em-ployment knows.

The baby boomer generation is not retiring, low-end jobs are being replaced by machines or being shipped overseas.

And the economy is not helping.She talked about how her stay-at-

home mom made her work in a sewing job when she was 13, whereas many young people today with aspergers/au-tism are sitting in their basements play-ing video games.

This perspective is problematic be-cause it places the burden of responsibil-ity on people who have little autonomy to act. They are constrained by society.

The stay at home mom is no longer the social norm, and as Grandin stated herself, early intervention for autistic people is the most important step in socializing an autistic person.

But it takes a lot of time and effort. Par-ents used to have that time, but no longer.

To expect a kid to overcome his/her

socially imposed shame without the same level of social support Grandin had is unreasonable. Through disabil-ity pride, the disabled population tries to fill that gap.

When Grandin was young she faced many cultural roadblocks like overt sex-ism and ableism. But today, in a world where almost every job is totally script-ed down to our typing rates, people with “different abilities” are not benefited.

Discrimination is no longer so overt; it is systemic through the old and stiffly bureaucratized organism that is society today.

Grandin has a disability (autism) and she has a valuable voice that should be heard within the disabled population.

But, she encouraged us to make our disabled identity secondary to what we can actually do. This is not a bad perspective, but at a disability pride festival it missed the point — disability empowerment.

Sociology senior Kevin Fleming is the president and founder of the Ability Club at CSU. He identifies as dyslexic.

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CAMPUS VOICE

Would an on-campus stadium motivate you to go to more games?

I would not be more motivat-ed to go to football games because I feel like it would be way more crowded. I think that, if anything, they should renovate the bus systems to go to the old stadium and renovate that so people are more com-pelled to go and not have to change the entire setup.

ANNA GOODHART, junior communications and german double major

I would not be more likely to go to the stadium just because of the traffic.

AUSTIN PENA, sopho-more health and exercise major

Probably not if it was on campus. I don’t think it would motivate me to go any more than it does now … I don’t know, I mean, maybe I would go more just because it would be closer. But the fact that we’re not very good any-ways, I don’t think it would motivate me to go more.

JENNIFER MCCABE, se-nior wildlife biology major

I probably would, just be-cause it’s more convenient, I feel like. I live off-campus now, but I know when I lived on-campus it would be a lot easier because I didn’t have a car until my sophomore year. So I guess it would be more convenient.

KELCY SHANAHAN, senior health and exercise science major

I think it would motivate me more to go to home games because it’s closer. You wouldn’t have to drive there, so you wouldn’t have to have a D.D.

KENDALL LLOYD, junior international studies major

CAMPUS VOICE

What do you think about the on-campus stadium proposal?

Well, I would say the football team is 1-4 this year, which is no change from the past three years I’ve been here. So obviously all the investments we’ve already made have made no difference about how the football team performs. So why waste money on a bad team?

NATE ORBOCK, senior forestry major

I think it’s kind of a waste of money, and it’s money that could be used in various other places that would be a lot more beneficial. I think, honestly, that the stadium that we have now is proficient for what we need. And, as well as a waste of money, it’s a waste of on-campus space to be honest. We just don’t have enough room here.

DEREK ANDERSON, sophomore biomedical sciences major

In all honesty, I don’t think the on-cam-pus stadium is such a good idea because it costs a lot of money. And I realize that the money that they would be getting is coming from private donations and such. But just about the fact that we can take that money and create other buildings, dorms, other services, that would actually be more beneficial than an on-campus stadi-um. Because the on-campus stadium is just more likely to congest traffic on campus. Where would they put it? Where are people going to park?

LORA ELLIOTT, junior political science major

I think that the on-campus stadium idea is foolish. I don’t think that our football team deserves a new stadium. I think the money could be used to better other parts of the campus. And I know it’s privately funded and all that jazz, but I feel like the money could be put to better use like renovating the actual academic part of the campus. I don’t know, I think it’s going to not look good on the campus, I think it’s going to be crowded, I think it was not a great idea. Not at all.

SAM DUGAN, junior social work major

SOS Hughes continues fight against stadium

By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The polarizing on-cam-pus stadium debate didn’t stop with the Fort Collins community or CSU students –– faculty at the university are as divided on the issue as ev-eryone else.

Some argue that focusing on athletics inhibits academic progress. Some worry that ad-ditional traffic and loss of green space would be detrimental to the campus environment. Oth-ers think an on-campus stadi-um presents a revenue stream that would benefit CSU’s land-grant mission in a time of ex-treme budget cuts.

“There are way more im-portant things to a university, like how good the teachers are and what you’re going to learn, than going to football games with nice seating,”

said Jessica Cox, a graduate teaching assistant.

Part of that involves maintaining reasonable class sizes that allow instructors to spend time on students’ work and be available during office hours. The on-cam-pus stadium, however, could increase student interest in CSU, increasing the demand on faculty.

“There has been no move to hire full-time faculty,” said Ann Magennis, an associate professor of anthropology. “It is only an increase in ad-juncts. They have no job se-curity, lousy pay. They are third-class citizens and that’s who is teaching a quarter of all the classes on campus. How do they expect to sup-port the influx of students without adequate faculty to teach them?”

But it wouldn’t be just in-

structors who would suffer, faculty said. An on-campus stadium, they said, could po-tentially change the universi-ty’s entire culture by shifting its focus off of academics.

“I’ve done my small part to make this place a high-ly ranked university for re-search and teaching,” physics professor Carl Patton said. “I’d hate to see that dominat-ed by a football mentality. It will change the whole culture of our campus.”

Graduate teaching assis-tant Bradley Kaye agreed.

“I’m a huge football fan, but I’m a huge opponent of the stadium,” Kaye said. “I think it shows a distinct pre-dilection to a certain type of atmosphere that privileges athletics over academics.”

But not all faculty were quick to oppose CSU Presi-dent Tony Frank’s proposal. Some viewed it as a revolu-tionary step in fulfilling the land-grant mission of CSU.

“Tony Frank has a long-term vision and we’re mov-ing forward according to that vision, and I see that has a positive,” said James Pritch-ett, an associate professor of agricultural economics.

Pritchett said that higher education has been stuck in a stage of victimization and supports the university pur-suing new avenues of funding outside of the state. That way, it can support its land-grant mission –– providing individu-als access to higher education.

“The next stage for us is to say we’re going to find other revenue streams to fulfill the land grant mission even if those avenues are unconven-tional,” Prichett said. “The first 150 years was about the state supporting us and now we’re looking at new ways to accomplish what we’ve al-ways set out to do.”

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

Faculty react to stadium decision

ON-CAMPUS STADIUM BY THE NUMBERS

Source: colostate.edu/stadium

Note: All numbers are estimations.

$246 million total cost

August 2015target opening

640,866Gross Square Feet of Stadium & extensions

42,000Number of seats

8,000priority seats

PRIVATE DONATIONS$45 million to $220 million

CORPORATE NAMING AND SPONSORSHIPS

$3.45 million to $4.8 million

PREMIUM SEATING$3.7 million to

$6.7 million

EVENT FEES AND OTHER REVENUE

$.44 million to $1.4 million

TICKET REVENUE$4.3 million to $9.8 million

CONCESSIONS, MERCHANDISE AND PARKING

$.96 million to $3.2 million

TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING SOURCES$173 million to $437 million

STADIUM EXPENSES$2.8 million to

$4 million

REVENUE STREAMSANNUAL REVENUE: $7.6 million to $13 million

FINANCED: $128 million to $217 million

Kkuhl41@‏“Shout out to @CSUTonyFrank for granting CSU a new on cam-pusstadium!! #GoRams”

@Lackey9133 “Just saw someone say they are against a new stadium for #CSUbecause he’s afraid people might try to profit off of it. #seriously”

@jess_stadler09“@PeezyTaughtMe2 that and it’s a lot of money and we already have a stadium we can fix and make better. We don’t need a brand new one.”

@SteveFrawley “Wow, what a surprise! Tony Frank is going to build a new stadium in Fort Collins.”

@HumBEARTOcruz “Tony Frank is going forward with this stadium. Seems to know what he’s doing.”

@_bulletproof818 “disappointed w/ on campus stadium decision. Say goodbye to the stadium I’ve been cheering @ since I was 3.#tonyfrankcanshavehisbeard”

IF YOU BUILD IT... By NIC TURICIANOThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

President Tony Frank made his an-nouncement in favor of the proposed on-campus stadium Monday, but that doesn’t mean that the advocacy group Save Our Stadium Hughes will stop pushing against its construction.

“We will continue to fight it. We will make our voices heard in front of the (CSU) Board of Governors,” said Bob Vangermeersch, founder of SOS Hughes.

Following President Frank’s recom-mendation, the stadium proposal will now be presented to the BOG, which Ty-ler Shannon, co-founder for the pro-sta-dium group Be Bold CSU, believes will listen to Frank’s recommendation.

“We expect them to listen to Frank; we think he was very reasonable in his expec-tation of fundraising,” Tyler said. “Our only goal now is to support the university.”

Tyler said that he and other support-ers are looking forward to helping the university meet its fundraising goal of $125 million before ground can be bro-ken on the new stadium (as outlined in Frank’s announcement).

“All the supporters I’ve spoken with have been waiting for the go-ahead so they can donate what they can, when they can,” Shannon said. “Once we find out from the university how they are going to

collect funds, I’m going to go to those peo-ple and tell them how they can donate.”

The proposed stadium will have a total of roughly 42,000 seats, with 8,000 allocated for priority seating, making it roughly the same size as the stadium at Princeton University.

“They’re not bold — they’re looking for something half-baked. The average stadium size (for a top-20 football pro-gram) is 83,000,” Vangermeersch said. “It’s a lousy investment no matter who pays for it, but you can’t get it back.”

Up to five SOS Hughes members are currently assembling an argument focusing on the economics of the pro-posed stadium to be presented to the BOG, Vangermeersch said.

Joel Maxcy, a sports economist and associate professor of economics at Temple University, was brought to Fort Collins by SOS Hughes on Sept. 24 to present his feasibility report for the pro-posed stadium. In his report, which can be viewed on the SOS Hughes website, Maxcy claims that projected revenues for the stadium are unrealistically high.

The decision to go ahead with the sta-dium takes into account various factors other than financing and revenue, such as boosting recruitment for the CSU foot-ball team, Maxcy said, and those benefits are very difficult to predict.

“My role in coming to campus was

to evaluate financial projections for the stadium. There are factors in that deci-sion that go well beyond that.”

Maxcy was not surprised by Presi-dent Frank’s decision to support the sta-dium, saying, “There were strong feel-ings and arguments coming from both sides of this.”

According to Shannon, SOS Hughes has helped to keep the stadium process transparent, but now that Frank’s an-nouncement has been made, he expects the organization to eventually support the stadium’s construction.

“It’s time to realize this is going to happen and support CSU — it’s time to move forward,” Shannon said.

For Vangermeersch, though, the sta-dium debate doesn’t end with Tony Frank or even the CSU Board of Governors.

“I suspect somehow, somewhere, someone is going to start a citizen’s ini-tiative — sign a petition to put on the ballot for April whether the city can spend any money to support the stadi-um,” Vangermeersch said.

He did not say that a member of SOS Hughes would be responsible for such an initiative, stating that a petition is nothing more than a possibility at this point.

Entertainment Editor Nic Turiciano can be reached at [email protected].

By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

With president Tony Frank’s announcement Mon-day that CSU plans to tenta-tively move forward with an on-campus stadium, the ques-tion arises about what will be done with 32,500 seat Hughes Stadium.

“It’s still early in the process and we’re nowhere near making a decision on what will happen to Hughes,” said CSU spokes-man Mike Hooker. “Nothing’s changed since the release of the feasibility report.”

The report, released in ear-ly August and conducted by the Stadium Advisory Committee to look at the viability of build-ing an on-campus stadium, had a separate study assessing Hughes Stadium. The report concluded that 45-year-old Hughes Stadium has a back-

log of $30 million in “deferred maintenance.”

In Frank’s email announc-ing his decision to campus and community, he stated that the new stadium will be contin-gent upon financing. If enough money for a new stadium isn’t generated in the next two years, the university would consider renovating Hughes.

“It is my belief that if we have not identified a viable fi-nancing plan for a new stadi-um to take forward within two years, we will have to suspend these efforts and make some investments in assuring that Hughes Stadium remains a vi-able venue for Colorado State football,” Frank wrote.

If the university decided not to move forward with an on-campus stadium and ex-pand and renovate Hughes by adding an additional 17,000 seats, the cost would jump to

somewhere between $90 and $105 million for the expansion alone plus $30 million for ren-ovations.

The number was reached by taking a 1999 estimate for seat expansion and multiply-ing it by a factor of 1.7 to adjust for inflation, according to the feasibility report.

The report doesn’t di-rectly address the options for Hughes should the on-cam-pus stadium be built.

A Denver based commer-cial construction and dem-olition firm, who wished to remain anonymous for com-petitive reasons, estimated the cost of tearing down a 32,500 seat stadium would be less than $1 million. Most of the material from the stadium would be recycled.

Senior Reporter Austin Briggs can be reached at [email protected].

Hughes may still be renovatedNext decade will take $10 million in maintenance costs

On-campus stadium divides faculty

2005: Associate Athletics Director Doug Max told RamNation that $100 million will not be enough to build a new stadium.

DECEMBER 1, 2011: CSU athletic director Paul Kowalczyk is fired and replaced with former CSU quarterback Jack Graham.

DECEMBER 4, 2011: CSU football coach Steve Fairchild is fired following three con-secutive 3-9 seasons.

DECEMBER 12, 2011: Ala-bama offensive coordinator Jim McElwain is hired as CSU’s head football coach.

JANUARY 1, 2012: Jack Graham first presents the idea of an on-campus sta-dium in an interview with the Fort Collins Coloradoan. JANUARY 25, 2012: Save

Our Stadium Hughes hosts its organizational meeting.

FEBRUARY 3, 2012: The Stadium Advisory Committee holds its first meet-ing to a near-ca-pacity crowd in the Lory Student Center North Ballroom.

FEBRUARY 14, 2012: CSU President Tony Frank fields questions from the Fort Collins City Council about the on-cam-pus stadium proposal. FEBRUARY 21, 2012: The university

announces a series of 10 public forums facilitated by the Center for Public Deliberation to field public opinion about the proposal.

MARCH 11, 2012: CSU announces that it has hired the architectural firm Populous as con-sultant on the project.

MARCH 22, 2012: CSU announces that ICON Venue Group will serve as con-sultant to help study the feasibility of an on-campus stadium.

MARCH 29, 2012: Stadi-um Advisory Committee meets at the Hilton in Fort Collins.

APRIL 16 TO 17, 2012: Public input forums allow community members to ask questions and provide input.

APRIL 20, 2012: Stadi-um Advisory Committee has public meeting at Lory Student Center.

MAY 2012: Consultants hired by CSU recommend building the stadium near Lake Street, where the Plant Environmen-tal Research Center is located. Cost for the stadium is estimated at $246 million.

MAY 31, 2012: ASCSU survey shows that 67 percent 3,553 students oppose on-campus stadium.

JULY 31, 2012: Public Forum with Tony Frank. Last opportu-nity for public input.

AUGUST 9, 2012: Stadium Advisory Committee releases feasibility study that on-campus stadium is feasible and $13 million to $26 million could be generated in the first year the stadium is open.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012: Fort Collins city council rejects non-binding bal-lot referendum for yes/no vote on on-campus stadium.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012: Sports economist Joel Maxcy says under worst case scenario stadium could lose $218 million over 30 years.

OCTOBER 1, 2012: President Tony Frank announces plan to build on-campus stadium.

2014: Frank’s deadline for securing sta-dium fundraising before devoting his efforts to Hughes.

BY MATT MILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Collegian: Obviously Tony Frank green-lit the on-campus stadium today, as student body pres-ident what were your initial thoughts, and do you agree with his decision?

Associated Students of CSU President Regi-na Martel: I think that Dr. Frank followed a pro-cess that he laid out at the very beginning and after the stadium advisory committee forwarded a yes, I think he took his time making a decision about something that is very controversial. So I support the process a lot. I think he made a really good decision.

Collegian: So you agree that this is something the university should be moving forward with?

Martel: ASCSU is not taking a stance on the stadium. I think at this point it seems kind of moot not to take a stance, but I think we need to support the university with what they want to do.

Collegian: With this decision made today, why is it still ASCSU’s choice to not have a stance on this?

Martel: I think that at the end of the day whether or not we take a stance on it, it’s happen-ing right? We want to support Dr. Frank in that, and I think we still need to support the other stu-dents who still don’t want a stadium. How do we address those concerns of students who are un-happy with it?

Collegian: As student body president and the voice for the students, what’s your role in this moving forward and how can you play that role without a stance?

Martel: As far as ASCSU’s role, I don’t know that we have one now. I think that if there’s an op-portunity for students to be involved, as of right now I don’t know the next step for the university so I don’t know where ASCSU would be involved.

Collegian: As the voice for the students on the Board of Governors, how will you ensure that the administration is advocating for us?

Martel: Dr. Frank followed a process that in-volves students, that involves a lot of stakeholders at the university and I can advocate for that. I can also advocate for the students who didn’t approve of it. I think that it would be wrong for me to ig-nore the voice of the people who didn’t want the stadium. I hope to go to the Board of Governors and represent both sides of what I’ve heard from students.

Collegian: In terms of funding for the stadi-um, how do you plan to ensure that students ar-en’t footing any of the bill like Frank promised in his email today?

Martel: I guess honestly I don’t know right now. I’m still in a little bit of a shock that it’s an official yes. So as far as things go I don’t know.

Collegian: How do you see this decision im-pacting the future of this university?

Martel: Dr. Frank kind of laid it out in his statement that he is looking 50 years down the road for the university. I think this is a good step forward for the university. The short term is the really, really hard part and I think that’s some-thing that we all have to take into account — how is this stadium being built, how are we affecting student’s lives.

On-campus stadium by the numbers

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DESIGN BY KRIS LAWAN

Q & A with Regina Martel

By SEAN MEEDSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Donating plasma is quick money: Recline in a chair twice a week, get stuck with a needle and earn up to $300 a month. It’s not hard to see why the process might appeal to a college student.

In fact, the fi nancial in-centive has been the main allure for most student do-nors.

“I don’t like needles, so I donated purely for the cash,” said sophomore Brady Huntzinger, who has donat-ed both plasma and blood multiple times. “It’s also a good feeling knowing that I helped someone.”

And he isn’t alone.

“I wanted some extra cash to buy my boyfriend a gift,” said CSU alumni Leah Smith. “I get paid to relax for an hour, and I also get to have nice conversations with the other people there too.”

Those aspects are so al-luring to Smith that she do-nates twice a week at CSL Plasma, a Fort Collins plas-ma donation center located at 1228 W. Elizabeth St. CSL Plasma is a subsidiary of the national plasma group CSL Behring.

Christopher Florentz, manager of corporate com-munications for the compa-ny, said that student donors do more than just earn cash –– they support a worthy

cause.“It’s not just a matter of

donating plasma,” he said. “It’s what we do with it that counts.”

Plasma is used to treat such illnesses as hemophil-ia, severe burns and shock. It is also used in products for people who have suffered heart attacks or have been exposed to rabies and can be administered to patients undergoing heart surgery or organ transplantation.

Plasma is extracted from a donor’s blood through a process called plasma-pheresis. When the donor is reclined and the blood is gathered, the plasma is then extracted from the rest of the blood. When it’s fi n-

ished, the remaining blood is returned to the donor through the same needle. According to Florentz, a sterile kit is used on every donor and the blood does not leave the plasma ex-tracting system.

In an email to the Col-legian, phlebotomist Elaine Padron from the Poudre Val-ley Hospital Garth Englund Blood Donation Center said that donors run no risk of serious injury from donating plasma.

“You cannot get AIDS from donating plasma,” she wrote. “Everything used to collect plasma or platelets is sterile and discarded after each donation.”

She also noted that a do-

nor can develop scar tissue around the area that is used to gather plasma, but it only occurs if someone donates on a regular basis.

In order to donate, each participant must have an initial medical evaluation to see if his or her blood is healthy enough to be donat-ed. The evaluations include a brief physical, which is re-peated annually.

“We monitor the donor’s health right up front to make sure he or she is in good health,” Florentz said.

Along with the medical evaluations, there is a med-ical director for each center plus a medical staff consist-ing of nurses and paramed-ics. The entire process is ap-proved and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration.

According to Florentz, CSL Plasma operates one of the largest plasma collection networks in the world. Mil-lions of people have donat-ed plasma since the process was started in the 1950s.

Collegian Writer Sean Meeds can reached at [email protected].


By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Injuries come with the territory in football, but CSU has been victimized by like-ly season-ending injuries to key players on both sides of the ball.

Senior corner back Momo Thomas is scheduled to have surgery on his shoul-der Wednesday, which he injured during the San Jose State game Sept. 15 while re-turning a punt, according to coach Jim McElwain.

McElwain did not say whether or not Thomas would miss the rest of the season until the surgery was completed. Recovery time for shoulder surgeries can take “several months”, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Sur-geons website. Thomas was granted a medical hardship

by the NCAA during his ju-nior season in 2010 for a right shoulder injury.

Starting quarterback Garrett Grayson underwent surgery for a broken collar-bone Monday afternoon. Grayson sustained the in-jury in the first quarter against Air Force Saturday. Backup quarterback M.J. McPeek will start in place of Grayson going forward,

and redshirt freshman Connor Smith will assume the backup role.

“Obviously we’ll miss Garrett and as you know Momo was a guy that was re-ally playing well,” McElwain said. “Those two guys being out for a while is something that you don’t foresee … I thought M.J. came in and did some good things, you know he did, and proved

that he’s ready.”Another injury during

Saturday’s game against Air Force was to defensive tack-le Zach Tiedgen. Tiedgen sprained his knee and will miss 2-3 weeks. His injury is another to a position lacking in depth with the week-to-week status of John Froland along the defensive front.

Returning to action for the homecoming game against Fresno State will be starting safety Austin Gray, who missed last week, and guard Brandon Haynes, who saw limited action versus the Falcons.

“When you look at it from an injury standpoint, basically mid way through, fi ve games through your sea-son, really it’s not that bad,” McElwain said.

Sports Editor Cris Tiller can be reached at [email protected].

Garret Grayson looks up towards the scoreboard during the fourth quarter of Saturday’s loss to Air Force. Grayson broke his collarbone during the second quarter of play, and is out indefi nitely.

NICK LYON | COLLEGIAN

CSU missing key players due to injury

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (10/02/12). You’re beginning a learn-ing phase, in which travel, education and communication expand your mind to new levels. Your spirituality fl ourishes this year. Living sustainably within your means is your man-tra. Simple joys delight.

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

ARIES (Mar. 21-April 19) ––7–– Take your friends’ encour-agement to heart. Get the help you need, but that you were too shy to ask for before. It’s easier to go for the big prize to-gether. Empower their dreams.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ––9–– A shrewd investment in-creases your status. Stash away the surplus. A surprise visitor could pop up. Do what you promised for an authority fi gure. Share a powerful vision.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ––8–– Balance mind, body and spir-it. Meditation helps you stay present. Create enough room for big changes, even if they come in slowly. Think about what you love.

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