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By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

With an easy going man-ner, bright smile and willing-ness to spend hours outside of class helping any student who was struggling with statistics, Carl Richard Gumina inspired thousands of CSU students in his 15 years as an instructor in the Department of Statistics in the College of Natural Sciences.

“He truly was a beloved teacher who cared about his students. A consummate scholar. He had a love of life you can only dream of having,” said Janice Nerger, dean of the College of Natural Sciences. “Rick was one of the finest teachers in our college.”

The instructor was found unconscious Monday morn-ing by bike racks behind the CSU Statistics Building on the Oval. After being taken from

the Colorado State University campus in an ambulance, Gu-mina was pronounced dead at Poudre Valley Hospital at 8:35 a.m. Monday, according to Jere Gunderson, an investigator with the Larimer County Coro-ner’s Office.

Gunderson said the cause of death is still pending, but no foul play is suspected. An au-topsy is scheduled for Tuesday.

Gumina was 55 years old.Friday afternoon Kalie Mc-

Quillen, a junior psychology and social work double major, had just turned in a project in Gumina’s statistics class. Walking out the building with a classmate, they both talked about how good of an instruc-tor Gumina was.

“We were both talking about how great he was and how we wouldn’t want any other professor teaching us statistics,” McQuillen said.

Former CSU student Ulan-da Baker said Gumina put everything he had in making statistics “fun, unique and en-gaging” for the students who passed through his class.

She said he would try to come up with subjects that a college kid might find inter-

esting, like the average length of a kiss, marriage or average amount of alcoholic beverages a college student might con-sume over a weekend.

“He was always willing to take the extra time to answer questions. He would try so hard to come up with different ways

to help the person understand the subject,” Baker said.

Former students said Gu-mina knew statistics was one of the more disliked classes and would joke about that with students and do everything he could to make it accessible.

“It’s really hard to find good professors who teach a tough subject everybody hates,” Bak-er said.

McQuillen said she came from a high school of 300 people and was worried she wouldn’t be able to get to know any of her professors at CSU.

After taking Gumina’s STAT 311 class her freshman year, she said there was no other instructor she wanted for her STAT 312 course.

“He was just a cool guy and so unpretentious,” McQuillen said. “At the beginning of every

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The CSU Jousting Club is happening! Now everyone who has ever wanted to be Heath Ledger in “A Knight’s Tale” can live out their fantasy of riding atop a horse, clad in knight’s armor and wielding a lance and shield. The creation of a Jousting Club now begs the question, what other cool clubs should CSU students put together?

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Role Playing

Since we’re going full medieval now, CSU needs to approve full contact “LARP-ing.” Swords, axes, armor –– the whole nine yards. It is one step closer to a CSU Renais-sance Festival.

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If it is good enough for the Olympics, it is good enough for us. Trampo-lines are some of the things that just never ever get old.

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By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Colorado voters will de-cide on Nov. 6 on Amend-ment 64 –– legislation that would regulate marijuana like alcohol and it make the state among the first in the nation to profit from the substance’s legalization.

It proposes modifying Col-orado’s Constitution to allow individuals 21 years old or older to possess, use, grow and trans-fer up to one ounce of mari-juana or up to six marijuana plants, with certain restrictions.

Adults would be allowed to share up to one ounce of marijuana with other individ-uals over the age of 21, but are not allowed to sell it.

According to Vote No On 64, one ounce of marijuana is the equivalent of 60 joints –– others say it comes out to 40 joints.

“Marijuana prohibition has failed and 64 is a sensible, evidence based approach for Colorado,” said Betty Ald-worth, a spokesperson for the Campaign to Regulate Mari-juana Like Alcohol.

At a campaign event that took place in Fort Collins on Oct. 19, Libertarian presiden-tial candidate Gary Johnson said that 90 percent of the problems with drugs in this country are problems be-cause of prohibition, not use.

“I’m the only candidate running for president of the United States that wants to end the drug war now; legalize marijuana now,” Johnson said at a former medical marijuana dispensary. “Colorado has the opportunity to change drug policy worldwide.”

Changing drug policy worldwide is the same reason

Rachel Drechsler, treasurer for the College Republicans at CSU, said she is opposed to the amendment.

“I believe that by regu-lating marijuana, the state of Colorado would become an epicenter for the drug traf-ficking across the nation,” Drechsler wrote in an email to the Collegian.

Dreschsler stated that she also worries about the impact marijuana legalization would have in Fort Collins and on the CSU campus.

“I believe that if Amend-ment 64 was made legal here it would directly impact the availability of marijuana across campus which would directly encourage a higher rate of use among students which would lead to a less academically inclined com-munity,” Dreschsler wrote.

In September, Gov. Hickenlooper opposed the amendment saying it would inhibit Colorado from re-maining the healthiest state in the nation and it has the potential to tell children that drugs are OK.

“While we are sympathetic to the unfairness of burdening young people with felony re-cords for often minor marijua-na transgressions, we trust that state lawmakers and district attorneys will work to mitigate such inequities,” Hickenlooper said in his statement.

Dawn Nannini, evalua-tion specialist at Team Fort Collins, a local organization dedicated to preventing the abuse and illegal use of alco-hol, tobacco and other drugs, also worries legalization of marijuana would negatively

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Teresa Tellechea watches the presidential debate with a focused look on her face at Avogadro’s Number on Monday. The College Democrats held a watching party at Avogadro’s Number, while the College Republicans held one at the Larimer County Victory Office.

KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN

Community gathers to watch the final debate

Amendment 64 supporters rally for marijuana legalization

Beloved CSU statistics instructor dies at 55

Statistics Instructor Carl Richard Gumina, right, was pronounced dead at Poudre Valley Hospital early yesterday morning.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CSU STATISTICS WEBSITE

“I’m the only candidate running for president of the United States that wants to end the drug war now.”

Gary Johnson | Libertarian presidential candidate

By KATE SIMMONS and KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The chatter of voices and crunch of paper food liners quieted as President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney addressed patrons of Avogadro’s Number from a large projector screen in the back room of the restaurant.

Meanwhile, the College Republicans at CSU and community members gathered in the Larimer County Victory Office for their own debate watch party and were greeted by a life-size cardboard cutout of Romney placed next to the television broadcasting the debate.

“It’s really great to get together — what-ever side you’re on — and watch the debate. You can talk about things that one said, and have a verbal discourse about issues,” said Kelsey Maez, president of the CSU College Democrats. “It can really provide a venue to answer questions people have.”

Economics major Tyler Marr, who at-tended the Republican watch party, said he thinks voters know very little about Romney’s foreign policy platform and that the debate helped reveal each candidate’s platform.

“I think if voters were still undecided about [Romney] on foreign policy they prob-ably wondered what his policy would look like,” Marr said. “I think in that aspect the

debate helped him sway undecided voters.”For some attendees, the atmosphere of

the watch party determined their attitudes toward the debate.

Kevin Davis, a student at Front Range Community College, came to Avogadro’s Number to spend time with his friends and play a debate drinking game, but ended up learning more about the candidates.

“We actually didn’t drink almost nearly as much as we thought. We all just got too much into the actual debate,” Davis said.

Both watch parties had their share of applause and groans as the candidates at-tempted to explain their policy positions.

Obama’s experience in office leaves Romney at a disadvantage when it comes to foreign policy, according to Maez.

“There are so many situations going on in various parts of the world and right now. We can’t afford to have someone who has not had any foreign policy experience,” Maez said. “We need to keep the efforts we’ve made and the strides we’ve made in foreign policy continuing.”

Marr disagreed with Maez. He said that even though Romney has

not had Obama’s experience as Command-er in Chief, the debate allowed him to

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Enjoy chili con Kappa Kappa Gamma

Chili’s great, but it’s even better if it’s for a good cause.

Tonight, Kappa Kap-pa Gamma sorority will host “Chili con Kappa,” its annual fall philanthropy event.

For $5, participants can enjoy all-you-can-eat chili, Texas Roadhouse rolls, a baked potato bar and a chili competition. Proceeds benefi t the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The event goes from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and takes place at the Kappa house on 729 S. Shields St.

Learn how to manage stress, just in time for midterms

Is stress keeping you down?

Learn how to fi ght it to-day during the “Mindfully Managing Stress” work-shop series, happening to-day at 3:30 p.m. in the low-er conference room of the Campus Recreation Center.

This workshop, ac-cording to an entry on the events calendar, will teach attendees how to practice mindfulness.

“Mindfulness is a way to

train ourselves to be present in the moment with more attentiveness, awareness and acceptance,” the events calendar entry stated.

This is the second in a four-part workshop series. While participation in the fi rst workshop is recom-mended, it is not required. Call the CSU Health Net-work at 970-491-6053 to sign up.

Pulitzer prize winner making a stop at CSU

David Freed, a screen-writer, author and former investigative journalist for the Los Angeles Times, will be speaking to CSU’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Clark C room 146.

The event is free and open to the public.

Freed, a CSU alum and former Collegian editor, began his career in Colo-rado Springs, before mov-ing to the Rocky Mountain News and the Los Angeles Times.

He was a Pulitzer prize fi nalist for his coverage of the justice system in L.A. and shared a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Rodney King beatings.

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By AMANDA ZETAHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Imagine suiting up in a motorcycle jacket, mixed martial arts gloves and tradi-tional knight’s helmets made from 14 to 16 gage steel. You are riding a stampeding horse while aiming a 15-foot wood-en pole at your opponent.

Welcome to the sport of jousting.

The Jousting Club at CSU is eager to recruit new members for the 2013 spring semester. Informational meetings and practices take place every Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Johnstown, which is about 35 minutes south of Fort Collins.

Currently the Jousting club has three active mem-bers who have been training for a little over a year. Patrick Lambke, a world champi-on jouster and head of the Knights Jousting Academy, has agreed to coach those that are eager to learn the sport.

“We want safe and open-minded members to enjoy this sweet sport,” said Kryssi Miller, a senior the-atre major and president of the Jousting Club.

Miller has been jousting since April, but has been horseback riding since she was nine years old. She said it helps to have a back-ground in horseback riding, but that isn’t necessary to be a successful jouster.

Anyone that is willing to learn is welcome to attend practices. There are no size or age requirements, and the team is co-ed.

“In this sport, men and women are equal,” Mill-er said, “This is an exciting chance for girls that wanted to be a knight.”

Members of the club will compete in tournaments on

Saturdays beginning in the spring semester.

“It is very competitive, but we cheer for each other and act like a team,” said Anna Adrian, a master’s candidate and ac-tive member in the club.

Eventually, the club would like to compete against neighboring colleges –– if that’s an option.

“I don’t know of any oth-er university that has joust-ing,” Miller said.

In the meantime, mem-bers will be taught how to light armor joust. Light armor jousting differs from heavy armor jousting because less protective gear is needed and the objective of hitting the op-ponent is completely different.

“It is a type of shield tag,” Miller said. “It’s really all about the accuracy of hitting your opponent.”

The point system dif-fers between the two types

of jousting. In light armor jousting, the jouster is try-ing to hit a bull’s-eye located on their opponent’s shield. If they are successful in hit-ting the bull’s-eye with their lance, they get points.

“You have to have com-plete trust in your opponent, because you aren’t trying to injure each other,” said Bry-an Connly, a senior theatre major and vice president of the Jousting Club.

That doesn’t mean that injuries don’t occur. The most common injuries are small scrapes and bruises, as well as sore arms due to the heaviness of the lance.

“It’s safe if you are doing what you are told,” Connly said.

To prevent injuries, jousters wear motorcycle jackets, gloves, elbow and wrist pads, as well as tra-ditional garb that original jousters wore. Every joust-

er is also required to wear a knight’s helmet during practice and competi-tions.

“We found the helmets at the antique store,” Adrian said.

New members will be provided with their own equipment and horse. The club is eager to gain some new members and intro-duce them to the sport of jousting.

“It is perfect for the pent-up aggression people built up during mid-terms,” Miller said.

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

What: CSU Jousting ClubWhen: Wednesdays at 4 p.m.Where: Johnston, CO (35

minutes south of Fort Collins)

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President of the new Jousting Club Kryssi Miller practices at her arena Monday afternoon. The Jousting Club performs on horseback, but also does other games on foot like sword fi ghting and spear throwing.

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Jousting Club debuts at CSUA new club promotes chivalry and equality among members

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class he’d start by saying, ‘I’m not a doctor –– just call me Rick.’”

McQuillen said Gumi-na was always available and enjoyed joking around with his classes. If a class was particularly tough he would end it with, ‘we've had enough, let's go to the Skellar for a beer.’

“Getting to know your teacher like that is huge,” McQuillen said. “It chang-es your whole college ex-perience.”

Gumina received his undergraduate degree in chemistry and mathemat-ics from Hope College in 1979. He got a secondary education certifi cation from CSU in 1991 and re-ceived his master’s in sta-tistics from CSU in 1998.

In 2003, Gumina won the Resources for Disabled Students Effort Award.

“He seems to have a rare and special talent for explaining mathematics and statistics in such a way that even students with a phobic dislike for those subjects are able to succeed in passing them,” reads the center’s website.

Nerger put it differently.“He was a fi ne person,

just a fi ne person … ” she said. “The thing I’m going to miss is that smile and the laughs we shared every morning. He was a positive person who had a positive infl uence on thousands of students and everyone who knew him.”

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

GUMINA | ‘He was a positive person’


present his ideas to the American public and show that he is competent when it comes to foreign policy.

“I think the sitting pres-ident usually, if not always, has the advantage in a for-eign policy debate,” Marr said. “I thought, for being a domestic expert, Mitt showed he’s very capable of handling the foreign policy side of the job.”

Fort Collins community member Sandra Gust said she was very disappointed that the candidates did not discuss the situation in Lib-ya more. She said she would have liked to uncover what

really happened in the Beng-hazi incident.

Marr agreed with Gust. He said he thinks Romney missed an opportunity to confront Obama about Libya.

“I think that he dispelled the myths that he’s a war-monger,” Marr said. “He had to do that because it’s kind of a blank critique you hear of him sometimes in the for-eign policy department.”

According to Marr, Rom-ney caught Obama off guard by mentioning the president skipping Israel in his open-ing tour.

“He made a strong point when he said that the pres-ident skipped Israel on the opening tour,” Marr said.

“I thought that was the one time in the debate, if there was one, that the president was caught off guard.”

Now that the debates are over, the candidates’ supporters weighed in on the experience. Each side claimed their candidate as the victor.

Emily Cordes, a junior history and political science major, said Romney per-formed strongly in the de-bates, especially the fi rst, but that he won in the last debate by a narrower margin.

William Russel, the chair of Larimer County Demo-crats, thinks Obama was the overall winner in the debates.

“He laid low on the fi rst

debate but I think that was part of the plan,” Russel said. “It’d be un-presidential for him to get up there and bash the newbie right off the bat.”

The debate series suc-cessfully highlighted the candidates’ differences on issues important to Ameri-cans, according to Maez.

“I think both candidates broached each campaign platform and continued to show there are two very dif-ferent candidates,” Maez said. “Americans can fall on either side of the issues.”

Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle and Student Life Beat Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at [email protected]

DEBATE | Highlighted candidate di� erences

“� e thing I’m going to miss is that smile and the laughs we

shared every morning.”Janice Nerger | dean of the College of Natural Sciences

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Last week I overheard a student say ‘“If you like money and the economy, then you like tax cuts.” Oh, if it were only that simple my friend.

Since the onset of our financial crisis, deciding how to help struggling mid-dle-class Americans while still providing sufficient rev-enue for the government has been a point of contention.

Drastically different strategies in tax code current-ly hang in flux, yet their trans-parency is cloudy at best.

The appropriate ap-proach to our particular economic ailments is a function of our belief set, that is to say, “it depends.” What it depends on, largely, is the stances we take on the moral obligation to imme-diately eradicate the nation-al debt and our willingness to slash social programs.

First let us distinguish our deficit from debt.

Our deficit, the amount beyond our annual nation-al revenue that causes us to borrow, has shrunk ev-ery year under the Obama Administration. Our debt — being the overall nega-tive ending balance — con-tinues to grow, but at a de-creasing rate.

The best way to remedy both a deficit and national debt is growth — this is where arguments arise. Proponents of large tax cuts — such as a Romney administration — tend to favor the trick-le-down theory, in which, by decreasing taxes, the money that stays in hands of the pri-vate sector spurs spending, expansion and therefore eco-nomic growth.

Several problems arise from this idea. First is the belief that this money will in fact flow down the econom-ic stream from high-income all the way to low-income. If there is one thing the America’s growing wealth discrepancy illustrates it is how good our well-to-do population is at building fi-nancial dams to keep mon-ey at the top.

A second problem, inex-orably tied to the first, is how we pay for these tax cuts. Gov. Romney has explicitly stated he would end funding for PBS, Planned Parenthood, close tax loopholes and would repeal Obamacare among other things.

Although disputed by the Romney camp, substan-tive evidence suggests that the proposed funding cuts and tax regulation would not cover the cost it incurs without the assumption of growth. This presents a fork in the road, it would re-quire we make large cuts to spending in areas like edu-

cation, healthcare and tech research, charge it to the government tab which de-feats one of its fundamental goals, or some combination.

While we frequent-ly reference our debt and deficit, it is important to underline the implications and underlying purpose of both. For instance, a re-source intensive conflict such as the Iraq or Afghan-istan war, although morally debatable, has no quanti-tative benefit for the Amer-ican public while it costs us billions.

Another expenditure is a social program such as Obamacare. This program is undeniably costly in the short-run and its particu-lars raise heated debates, but what is the inherent objective? Ideally, with uni-versal healthcare coverage, preventative practices will avoid the less affluent from seeking expensive emer-gency care that ultimately is a cost to taxpayers.

More important than what our deficit or debt figure is, is where it comes from and how are we posi-tioning ourselves to elimi-nate it in the future.

The difference be-tween taking out a student loan for college or for a brand new Hummer is obvious to anyone. Educa-tion leads to career oppor-tunities and higher wages. Borrowing for a brand new car, not so much. Govern-ment spending carries the same principles.

A short run deficit is not necessarily bad as long as are using this revenue to make productive invest-ments: education, medical/scientific research, infra-structure, projects that at the end of the day will help grow our economy and standard of living over time.

If our greatest priority is immediately eliminating the national debt at what cost does it come? Sus-tained debt is risky in the sense we do not possess on hand cash as insurance against unforeseeable problems. Conversely, if immediate debt reduction is only achievable at the ex-pense of education, health benefits and other public services, is the juice worth the squeeze?

Like most anything in life, it is all about balance. Debt is not ideal and it is vital that we implement a plan that eliminates it systematically; but drastic short-run changes pro-posed by sweeping tax cuts threaten gutting pro-grams that services that define our country.

The phrase “it takes money to make money’” holds true into fiscal policy. Instead of slashing taxes, hoping it will trickle down, we must instead find bal-ance between cuts and stra-tegic spending to ensure Americans profit long term.

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

On a campus where over 26,000 students go to class and over 6,000 faculty and other em-ployees go to work, it can be easy to lose a sense of community.

An instructor — in passing on knowledge to students and en-couraging them to learn — has one of the most fundamental and important jobs in bringing together a university campus and when we lose one, the trag-edy brings us together.

Rick Gumina was, by the ac-count of those that knew him, a one-of-a-kind teacher who inspired his students to love a subject that many struggle to grasp. Throughout his 15 years

as a statistics instructor, he sin-cerely cared to do all he could

to get students to understand seemingly untenable mathe-matical concepts.

In 2003, CSU’s Resources

for Disabled Students present-ed Gumina with its Outstand-ing Effort Award, saying that through his dedication he en-sured that students of all abili-ties in mathematics could suc-ceed in his class and that “there are likely students who would not have graduated without his effort in supporting their suc-cess.”

The Collegian Editorial Board extends its condolenc-es to the friends, family, col-leagues and students of Carl Richard Gumina. The CSU community lost a beloved in-structor on Monday and he will be dearly missed.

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We lost an amazing teacher

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By BRYCE LIEDTKE

“Rick Gumina was... a one-of-a-kind

teacher who inspired his students to love a subject that many struggle to grasp.”

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GUEST COLUMN

I urge you to join me in voting for Karen Stockley for Larimer County Com-missioner. Karen is a longtime resident of Colorado, and she understands the issues important to all of us in Larimer County.

Karen supports smart land use and protecting our natural resources. She

is concerned about fracking, and she wants to protect the citizens from the harmful health effects that can occur during fracking. Karen is honest, level headed and will work well with the oth-er commissioners to get the job done.

We need a new voice on the County

Commission, and we need a woman’s voice— an independent voice. Please

vote for Karen Stockley in the Novem-ber election.

Nancy JacksonLoveland, CO

Compared to people in developing nations, Americans have the privilege and luxury to hold their food against high standards: They are concerned about the safety, quality and price of their food.

Consumers of meat take care in pur-chasing and often question whether the products they eat are safe and healthy. Hormones in meat are a major cause of concern in today’s food consumers.

It might just surprise you how safe hor-mone use in animal agriculture really is.

Through classes, discussions with professors and guided research, I have discovered the reasons for the benefi-cial use of hormones, which food ani-mal agriculturists utilize.

Several techniques and technolo-gies have been introduced in food-an-imal production to help provide our current population with enough viable protein — protein that is abundant, high-quality, safe and affordable. Beef

production technologies have allowed U.S. cattle producers to meet the pro-tein needs of our country and, through exports, the protein needs of people in many other countries.

Why does agriculture even both-er with animal protein as a source for food? There is a significant amount of land that is unsuitable for crop produc-tion. Yet this land offers a remarkable resource: forage. While humans cannot use forage, beef cattle can. And most market beef cattle spend most of their lives grazing this forage.

Cattle have a digestive system fea-turing a four-compartment stomach with a high complex microbial popula-tion, they are able to convert forage into muscle that can be used as a high-qual-ity protein for humans.

All food that is produced and sold commercially is required to meet fed-eral regulations. It is the job of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ensure the safety standards of meat. Animal products are carefully tracked and in-spected for consumer safety. The USDA does allow a regulated use of hormones to increase meat production.

The cattle industry uses hormones in their beef to increase the production of muscle and make the animal a better protein producer. More muscle allows the producer to meet the population’s protein demands.

In cattle, muscle growth is influ-enced by the amount of growth hor-mone, which is regulated by steroid hormones, such as estrogen and an-drogen.

In order to give an effective dose of anabolic hormones, estrogen and an-drogen, anabolic implants are inserted into the cattle’s ear. Many beef cattle are injected with this tiny device, which slowly emits the steroid hormones into the body. These supplemental hormone devices function just as if it was naturally occurring in cattle and other mammals.

The amount of hormones in treat-ed beef is not too much different than the hormone levels found in all natural beef. In a journal that discusses “The Ethical Food Movement” hormone lev-els of estrogen in different foods are spelled out.

A female naturally contains 480,000 nanograms of estrogen on a daily ba-sis. A 3 oz. serving of beef treated with a hormone supplement contains only 1.9 nanograms of estrogen. Whereas a 3 oz. serving of non-treated beef natural-ly contains 1.2 nanograms of estrogen. A 3 oz. serving of potatoes contain 225 nanograms of estrogen and 3 oz. serv-ing of soybeans contain 168,000,000 nanograms of estrogen.

Consumers have many choices in which meat they chose to buy at the grocery store. When you are making those choices, it’s helpful to understand that an entire body of science proves that beef raised with supplemental hor-mones is safe for human consumption.

Malinda DeBell is a sophomore ani-mal science major. Her column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

Is the squeeze worth all the extra juice?

There was a clear win-ner in Monday’s debate. It wasn’t Romney. It wasn’t Obama. The winner of the debate is the unobstructed continuation of America’s global interventionism. The presidential debate revealed that regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is elected president, the U.S. war machine will grind on.

While speaking at the University of Michigan, Mi-chael Hayden, the director of the CIA under Bush, said that despite his initial skep-ticism of Obama, he was re-lieved to find that Obama’s tactics used in the War on Terror have simply been a continuation of the policies of his predecessor, Presi-dent George W. Bush.

The only difference be-tween Bush and Obama? Obama kills more — usu-ally with unmanned aerial vehicles. Drone strikes are President Obama’s favorite national security enforcer. CNN reports he’s already authorized 283 UAV strikes in Pakistan, six times more than during Bush’s eight years in office.

Why such an increase in drone strikes?

“We have made it so politically dangerous and so legally difficult that we don’t capture anyone any-more,” former CIA Director Hayden said. “We take an-other option: We kill them.”

The number of deaths from Obama’s drone strikes is four times more than it was during the Bush administra-tion, with roughly between 1,494 and 2,618 killed. Yay America! Die Terrorists! Right?

Not quite. Last Wednes-day, Pakistan’s Interior Min-ister, Rehman Malik, speak-ing to the media outside of parliament, revealed that 80 percent of those killed in American drone attacks are innocent civilians.

This runs in stark con-tradiction to previous state-ments by the Obama admin-istration, which have claimed that the number of civilians killed in drone strikes is in the “single digits.” What ex-plains this discrepancy? The New York Times reports that the Obama administration “counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combat-ants,” unless there’s explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.

So if an innocent citizen happens to be caught in the blast of Obama’s drone strikes, the Obama admin-istration just automatically categorizes them as an ene-my combatant so they don’t have to count them as part of their civilian casualties. Why wasn’t this brought up in the debate at all?

Pakistan’s parliament has unanimously approved demands to end all drone strikes in their country, yet Obama and Romney both agree that we should be using even more of these sovereignty-ignoring UAVs.

Obama is one of the luckiest politicians in American history; Romney

failed to call out the con-stitutionally questionable overreaches of federal power that the Obama administra-tion has engaged in while fighting the War on Terror.

Why didn’t Romney hammer Obama on the increasing use of UAVs in American airspace? Depart-ment of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano is an-ticipating over 30,000 UAVs in U.S. airspace by 2020, so this is an issue that particu-larly deserves attention.

There was no criticism of the Obama administration’s targeting and assassination of American citizens like An-war al-Awlaki without due process — which our consti-tution specifies you cannot deprive somebody of life, lib-erty or property without.

There was no mention at all about the Patriot Act, which candidate Obama vowed to retract, yet under his admin-istration the Patriot Act has been renewed and extended.

Most importantly, the single greatest constitutional issue facing this nation to-day was not brought up a single time in the debates: the National Defense Autho-rization Act. This despicable legislation — which already has an injunction against it by a federal judge — legal-izes the indefinite detention of American citizens without charge or trial.

Romney did not chal-lenge Obama on any of these issues: His silence can only be seen as compliance. This should surprise nobody. A Romney administration would be as much of a con-tinuation of Bush-era foreign policy as Obama’s has. In fact, of Romney’s 24 foreign policy advisers, 17 served in the Bush administration.

Despite the fireworks on that debate stage, the Ameri-can people were largely ex-posed to two identical for-eign policies. Think about it: How many times did you hear the two candidates agree with each other?

Both candidates are un-equivocal allies of Israel and support crippling sanctions against Iran and military action if necessary. Both Obama and Romney are proposing increases in mili-tary spending despite our titanic debt and the fact that the mighty American mili-tary already eclipses every other force on the planet.

Where is the voice advo-cating not bombing Iran or enforcing sanctions that do nothing but starve the civil-ian population? Where is the voice advocating non-inter-vention, peace and bringing our troops home?

Where is the voice raised in opposition to Obama’s drone war, his warrantless surveillance programs and legislation he signed allow-ing the indefinite detention of American citizens with-out charge or trial?

The truth is that there is no differentiation between the policies of Bush, Obama or even Romney when it comes to the War on Terror — when deciding between safety and liberty, they’ve all chosen safe-ty, surveillance and control in place of freedom.

The real winner of the last presidential debate wasn’t either candidate, it was the military industrial complex and America’s global interventionism.

Editorial Editor Kevin Jensen is a senior English major. He can be reached at [email protected].

Do you remember when you were 13 and that passionate college student came to your class to discuss gender equality, religious tolerance, cultural relativity and sexual orientation? If your answer is no, then you’re not alone — in fact these topics were never exposed to me until I was finishing high school.

I grew up surrounded by a mostly white Christian demographic, and the first time I was seriously exposed to a culture that was ideologically or ethni-cally different than my own was when I began studying at CSU.

Like most other CSU students, I have taken classes, attended lectures and in-volved myself in many conversations which addressed stereotypes regarding gender, religion, sexuality and ethnicity.

These are topics expected to be dis-cussed among students of higher edu-cation, after all.

The question I would like to ask though — why are these topics being in-troduced when we are well on our way to becoming adults and not sooner?

In the past year some of the most sig-nificant conversations I participated in

have been with middle school students.Most recently, I was awarded the op-

portunity to speak with Cally Stockton’s first period Spanish class at Cache la Pou-dre Middle School about my experience traveling, learning Arabic and Arab cul-ture. For most of the students, it was the first time hearing about such things, espe-cially from someone not too much older than them. Questions flowed, interest was sparked and a conversation began.

On another occasion, I enjoyed speaking with the youth at The Springs Church, in Colorado Springs, discuss-ing Islam and the false stereotypes sur-rounding the religion. Even though the presentation in and of itself was simple (defining the basics of Islam and cor-recting stereotypes) the specific con-tent relative to the culture in which it was addressed, as well as my age and personal experience made the talk more powerful. It was the first time that this Christian youth group was able to talk openly about Islam and ask ques-tions from a knowledgeable source.

For me, discussing Islam, my travels, Arabic and social justice issues is a part of my everyday rhetoric; academically and socially. But for middle school stu-dents who lack the exposure of culture, language and religion different than their own, these conversation topics are abso-lutely necessary and can be life changing.

Since college students haven’t quite transcended into the image of a dis-heartened, out of date adult, the line of communication between middle school and college students is still open.

As an inspired and informed gener-ation, should it not be our duty to start these conversations with the youth?

When I was 14, I wish I had a college representative come from the GBLQT community to break down how using terms like “gay” or “fag” in a negative con-notation is flagrantly hurtful and possibly devastating to a person. Maybe then, it wouldn’t have taken me until I was 19 to learn the poison imbedded in such terms.

To be honest, when I walked away from my conversation with those young teens, I was not a changed person. I simply spoke about things familiar and dear to my heart, then life went on as usual. Who’s to say, however, that some of those young teens now see Muslims as human beings just like themselves, instead of foreign, hateful terrorists?

Not every conversation we partici-pate in has a monumental effect on us personally, it can, however, hold signifi-cance for the other party involved.

With it being Bullying Prevention Awareness month, I want to challenge my fellow students at CSU to take the time to talk with someone in middle school about topics we are blessed to be informed about and exposed to every day on campus. There is one caveat however — let it something you have personal in-vestment in, because those young teens can smell phony from a mile away.

Whether you are a part of a Latina sorority, the GBLQT community or have positive experience with other cultures — we need to share our knowledge and experience with the younger generation.

Editorial Assistant Brooke Lake is a senior international studies major. Her column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

By BROOKE LAKE

By KEVIN JENSEN

Yays and Nays

OPINION TUESDAYCOLLEGIAN

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |

A response to the pres. debateYay | to CSU’s hockey teams. Be it men’s or women’s, CSU owns on the ice. Go

Rams!

NAY | to not having a fall break. Tests are back. They’re always back. A break

would be nice.

Yay |to the jousting club. Now Quidditch and Jousting Club need to do a battle royale for charity.

NAY | to the Denver Post for their opposition on 64. At least you support legaliza-tion...

YAY | to the debates being over. Election cycle is almost over, we’re all tired of

political ads.

NAY | to Lance Armstrong for lying to everybody for so long. Who knew he was just as good at selling drugs and cycling as the rest of the country...

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Speak to the youth about cultural diversity

My name is Tyler Drum. I’m a 20-year-old political science stu-dent at CSU. I’m gay, a Democrat and I’m voting for Jon Fye “The People’s Guy” come November.

Many of my fellow Democrat friends ask me why I am so pas-sionately supporting the Repub-lican in this race. To me it is not about party: the two party system

is broken, both parties pass laws to regulate us so we live our lives how they want us to.

Democrats tell women they need to be in the workplace, Re-publicans tell them they need to maintain traditional family values. Democrats tell me what to put into my body by passing sin taxes on soda and cigarettes, while Republi-

cans tell me I can’t get married be-cause it would degrade the sanctity of their marriage.

Well frankly I’m tired of being told how to live my life. I think we need someone representing us in Denver who will be working to get rid of the bad laws and not attempt-ing to further tell me how to live.

Randy Fischer is a perfect ex-

ample of another Democrat trying to tell me how to live. When he spon-sored House Bill 09-1070 he wanted to tell me what I can and cannot do with my land, he wanted to tell me when I can and cannot talk on my cell phone with his support of House Bill 09-1094, and he wanted to pick the winners and losers in Colorado’s energy production with his support

of House Bill 09-1126. If you are as tired as I am of be-

ing told how to live your life, then I encourage you to join me and vote for Jon Fye “The People’s Guy” as our Representative for House Dis-trict 53.

Tyler DrumPolitical Science

We would like to speak to the story that you ran Oct. 2 about the English department’s advertisement for an en-try-level assistant professor of pre-1900 American literature. We have concerns about some of the inaccuracies.

The most distressing inaccuracy of the article is the story’s focus on pre-sumed discrimination against adjunct faculty. That is perhaps the story’s grav-est misrepresentation, since the truth is that we greatly value adjunct faculty in the English Department.

While salary and workload leave room for improvement, the university has in fact allowed us to give raises, rec-ognize adjunct faculty who have a long-standing record of excellent teaching in the department, and offer these mem-bers of our faculty several “distinctive positions.” We know our good fortune in having members of our adjunct fac-ulty undertake administrative work in the university’s composition program as part of their regular teaching load.

We also appreciate our adjunct fac-ulty members’ skills in the classroom and on department standing committees. Our strong support of Campus Equity Week (Oct. 8-12) speaks to our continu-ing actions to address adjunct faculty concerns; and our support of this impor-tant event argues against the implication that we would ever exclude qualified ad-junct faculty from applying for this or any English department position.

Near the end of the story the re-porter notes that “adjunct professors with qualified master’s degrees” were angered. Actually, no one with a master’s degree would be eligible for the posi-tion. Instead, as the position description clearly states, applicants need a Ph.D. Applicants with MA degrees are never considered because terminal degrees are required for any tenure-track position in the English department. We continue to encourage all qualified applicants to submit their materials for consideration for this entry-level position.

We would like to make two addition-al points. First, the reference to “this past week” misleads readers about the timing of the events. Actually, after the job post-ing on Sept. 6 and the responses that fol-lowed, we posted and updated the posi-tion description on Sept. 12. And while it is accurate to say the Office of Equal Opportunity reviewed the language of the ads, it is inaccurate to say that “OEO changed the language.”

Position descriptions regularly undergo extensive review before they are posted. The language of the up-dated description was proposed by the English department search com-mittee and reviewed by various people on campus, including the Director of OEO.

Thank you for giving us this oppor-tunity to set the record straight.

Louann Reid, department chair; Paul Trembath, search committee chair; and members of the search committee.


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Why yes, there is a day dedicated to food — and CSU is helping to celebrate it.

The CSU Nutrition and Fitness Club will be host-ing a farmer’s market in the basement of the Lory Student Center Wednes-day afternoon followed by a benefi t dinner featuring locally grown food thanks to National Food Day.

All proceeds from the event will benefi t the Larim-er County Food Bank.

“Food Day is a really awesome event,” said Elisa Shackelton, CSU extension assistant for the Food Sci-ence and Human Nutrition Department. “It’s happen-ing all over the country and is a way to promote healthy, affordable and sustainable food production.”

Local farmers will be on hand to talk about sus-tainable farming and have produce for sale as well. The

benefi t dinner will be host-ed in the library and feature produce donated by local farms.

Letting people know where their food comes from and meeting the farm-ers who grow it gives people a greater appreciation of the hard work it takes to grow your own food, said Isabella Sisneros, a food science and human nutrition senior and co-president of the Nutrition and Fitness Club.

“It’s like with McDon-alds, you have no idea where the food’s coming from it’s so standardized,” Sisneros said. “This gives a deeper connec-tion to the food. We want people to know where their food comes from and to also show we’re grateful for these local farms.”

Even though this is the second year for the national anniversary of food day, it’s the fi rst year it’s been recog-nized at CSU, Sisneros added.

Shackleton said all land grant universities have an ex-

tension program whose mis-sion is to use the research, knowledge and information that’s collected at the univer-sity to improve the lives of people living in the state.

“We take that informa-tion and make it into fact sheets,” Shackleton said. “We hope to improve peoples lives, like working with farm-ers and ranchers to make sure they’re up to speed on the newest innovations.”

Food Day is important to CSU, Shackleton said, be-cause Colorado is the only state in the country without high obesity rates. She said

the university can set a na-tional standard for healthy, affordable eating and sus-tainable food production.

“As the land state land grant university, agriculture is the heart and root of what CSU is all about,” Shackle-ton said. “Colorado believes in being healthy citizens, so CSU is perfect for promoting Food Day.”

The Larimer County Food Bank did not return re-quests for comment.

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

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impact youth. “We are opposed to pass-

ing Amendment 64 because we believe that legalization will increase its availability to use and we know that the availability of any substance is a risk factor for increased use among young people,” Nannini said.

Johnson disagreed, saying that the community would benefi t from the legalization of pot because it would free up law enforcement to focus on other crimes.

“I think when we legal-ize marijuana and realize that the sky doesn’t fall, po-lice actually go out tomor-row and enforce real crime as opposed to victimless non-violent crime,” John-son said. “It starts with look-ing at drugs fi rst as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.”

Some CSU students agree.

“I think our community will benefi t in a deeper, un-seen way for people who don’t smoke marijuana because there will be more resources for law enforcement and the underground trade would go away,” junior journalism ma-jor Daniel Allen said.

According to the 2012 State Ballot Information Booklet, the state legislature would enact a tax on mari-juana sales and the fi rst $40 million in revenue raised annually would fund public schools.

“When you regulate it, you’re getting the tax dollars and it can go to things like education,” said Caleb El-well, a graduate mechanical engineering student. “Oth-erwise all that money’s going straight to criminals.”

Education funding has been cut drastically in the

last few years as a result from the economic crisis and many supporters of Amendment 64 think the tax dollars from legalizing marijuana would be put to good use.

“I think it’s going to pass and when other states see the revenue generated by legalizing marijuana I don’t think other states will be able to resist (passing sim-ilar legislation), especially in a recession,” Fort Collins community member Riley Riplinger said.

CSU students remember how the budget cuts affected their education and agree that public schools would benefi t from more funding revenue.

“Every (school) district in every state has felt the burdens of such drastic edu-cational budget cuts,” soph-omore wildlife biology ma-jor Ashley Munson-Brigham

said. “Education should be a number one priority for the economy because the more educated citizens, the more the economy will fl ourish.”

Munson-Brigham said budget cuts made every-thing more diffi cult at her high school.

“We had to pay for re-quired classes out of our own pockets. The money from Amendment 64 could fi ll the void of a lot of tax dol-lars,” Munson-Brigham said.

Shawn Coleman, a member of the Organization of Cannabis Professionals, put it differently.

“Our current marijua-na policy is not consistent with the principles of liber-ty in which this country was founded,” Coleman said. “Amendment 64 is a solution.”

Student Life Beat Re-porter Kate Simmons can be reached at [email protected].

AMENDMENT | Supporters: $40 million for schools

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By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

If it wasn’t bad enough to struggle through a season with one win, CSU football has been forced to deal with a myriad of injuries to key contributors on an already young team. By accident or design the Rams’ bye week came at the perfect time.

“It’s nice (having a bye week) right here kind of at the halfway point,” junior H-back Jake Levin said Mon-day. “You do get to kind of reflect and see what you can change and what you will change going into the next half giving yourself a fresh start. It’s been very positive for us.

“We got rest and relax-ation from all the stress of playing on Saturday and all the stress of leading up to the game, so it was really, re-ally good for us.”

Through seven games this season the Rams have lost starting quarterback Garrett Grayson to a broken left collarbone, the team’s leading rusher from a year ago, Chris Nwoke, to nag-ging ankle injuries, senior cornerback Momo Thomas with season-ending shoul-der surgery and even backup quarterback M.J. McPeek, who suffered a shoulder in-jury of his own against San Diego State.

That’s just to name a few. CSU has grown thin at safe-ty, defensive line and most notably quarterback. Asking your third string, freshman quarterback to start is rather unfair, but Jim McElwain has no choice.

“I thought we got our starting quarterback Connor Smith really some valuable reps and we got him into it. Obviously he’ll go in as the starter,” McElwain said at his weekly Monday press con-ference.

Smith saw action in the Rams’ last game in San Di-ego completing 18 of 22

passes (81.8 percent) for 181 yards after McPeek left the game, but threw an intercep-tion and got sacked twice.

Like McPeek before him, Smith will have to learn what it takes to be a Division-I starting quarterback. Lucky for him there was a bye week first.

“When you know you’re going to be the guy there’s a heightened sense of inten-sity...I thought he did that and threw the ball around

the yard pretty well,” McEl-wain said of his young quar-terback. “Still took a sack down in the red area during the red area scrimmage and that was corrected. Still tried to fit a ball a couple times in where you know what, the reason the backs and the check down (are there) is to flip it to them. So those are all things that need kind of constant coaching, constant reminders and that’s how you become consistent at

the position.”McElwain and his coach-

ing staff did have the oppor-tunity to see more from oth-er young players outside of Smith who will be asked to step in and fill the shoes of all the injured veterans.

“In our case we used (the bye week) from a funda-mentals standpoint,” McEl-wain said. “It allowed us to get some guys, that haven’t maybe been playing a whole bunch, a good look and

maybe see where they’re at and those are the things that we were able to reevaluate. I feel like we came out of it well. Now that’s to be deter-mined on Saturday as well.”

In the end nobody was busier than the medical training staff.

“We obviously had some guys banged up. We had ev-eryone in the rehab, in the training room,” linebacker Aaron Davis said. “They were definitely full this week.”

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

Chris Nwoke (6) runs past Josh Kusan (52) during the third quarter of CSU’s game vs. Air Force. The rams will be coming back from a bye week to take on Hawaii this Saturday at Hughes Stadium.

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Running back Chris Nwoke: Ankle

Quarterback Garrett Grayson: Shoulder

Quarterback M.J. McPeek: Shoulder

Safety Austin Gray: Concus-sion

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The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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