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The Rams won the Rocky Moun-tain Showdown! This means that every CSU fan gets an entire year in which to gloat to everyone from Boulder about how awful the Buffs are. But it is also important to note that football is not the only thing we are better than CU–Boulder.

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PassionDecibel for decibel, nobody can cheer like a Rams fan can. Sports Authority Field is going to be ringing with the sound of cheering Rams for weeks to come.

HygieneWe call them “dirty hippies” for a reason. The poor souls that had to sit next to the CU–Boulder student section had to endure hours of unimagi-nable body odor and sweat, on top of the stench of overblown self–importance. No amount of trust fund money could hide that smell.

RamJam concert to lose $62,000 for ASAPBy AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

As of Monday, ASAP has sold 610 of the 8,000 tickets available for its RamJam concert and is set to lose $62,000 — even if the other 7,390 tickets are sold.

That comes out to $2.40 lost per CSU student.

Last year’s RamJam event, with B.o.B and Sean Kingston, sold 5,241 tickets to generate $47,817 in revenue. The show’s budget was $172,000, which meant it lost ASAP $124,183. That’s about $4.80 per CSU student.

Students pay a $9.21 per se-mester in fees to ASAP, which pro-vides the event planning organiza-tion with about $442,000 this year. The organization also has a com-mitment to the Student Fee Review Board to generate an additional $50,000 in revenue per year, bring-ing the total yearly budget to just under $500,000.

ASAP offi cials are optimistic, however, that sales will increase as the Sept. 15 Cobra Starship and Breathe Carolina shows draw closer.

“We’ve found in past years that we sell the majority of our tickets either the week of or the day of [the

show],” said ASAP Marketing Di-rector Val Ho.

The organization is a student-staffed event planning group whose mission is to bring diverse and affordable events to CSU.

“We feel very confi dent of the number of tickets we’ve sold right now and we anticipate that to go up a lot the week of the concert,” Ho said.

ASAP hopes to generate $98,000 in ticket revenue by selling all 8,000 tick-ets to a combination of CSU students and the general public. Tickets are $10 for students and $22 for the general public. The show is budgeted to cost $160,000, spelling out a $62,000 loss

under the best case scenario.However, according to a “Myth

Busters” section on the ASAP website, the goal of the organi-zation isn’t to turn a profi t or to break even on shows, but to make enough money to host other events throughout the year.

“Booking is defi nitely an art,” said Heather Starbuck, the director of Program Council, a CU–Boul-der organization that provides en-tertainment to CU students. “You want to hit that sweet spot where you book an up-and-coming act

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Rams beat CU, fi rst time since 2009

Tour de Fat raises $87,000 for bike charities

BOLD NEW STATEMENT

Colorado State players hoist the Centennial Cup trophie after defeating CU-Boulder in the Rocky Mountain Showdown Friday at Sports Authority Field in Denver. The fi nals score was 22-17.

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By LIANNA SALVAThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Tour de Fat is the one time of year in Fort Collins when wear-ing regular clothing during the day is out of the ordinary. This year, Old Town welcomed a crowd of brightly colored, tutu-wearing cyclists with their capes fl ying in the wind like never be-fore.

But there’s more to the Tour than just quirky costumes. The yearly parade helps to sustain the bike culture that Fort Collins is known for.

As in year’s past, a $5 dona-tion, which was given to Bike Fort Collins, was asked of pa-rade-goers.

The tour raised $87,000 be-fore expenses were accounted for from sales, according to Kory Swanson, the communications director for Overland Mountain Bike Club. The 2011 Fort Collins Tour raised $70,000 with an at-tendance of 20,000, said Bryan Simpson, public relations direc-tor for New Belgium Brewing.

Figures for the 2012 Tour at-tendance were not available at the time of press.

The money will be shared between Overland and the Fort Collins Bike Co-Op.

“We use it for working with land agencies to build trails. For example, last year we were able to donate $5,000 to Larimer County to rebuild trails. We use it for mountain biking day events and we have a patrol that we buy all their fi rst aid,” Swanson said.

Swanson described this year’s Tour, like every one be-fore it, as a great success to-ward building a more bike friendly community.

“It’s showing communities

that biking is fun and anyone can enjoy it,” he said.

The event is well known throughout the country, but its hometown of Fort Collins boasts the biggest and the best of bike parades and creativity.

Elizabeth Philbrick, a new resident of Fort Collins, attend-ed the Tour in Chicago last year, but was excited to attend her fi rst Foco Tour.

“They certainly know how to take it up a notch,” she said.

Philbrick and her friend,

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By ANDREW SCHALLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Statistics reveal a lot about a game, but the only one that really matters when the clock hits zero is who wins and who loses.

So as the Rams regroup from Sat-urday’s 22-17 victory over CU-Boul-der, they will look to improve on their mistakes as well as look at the posi-tives of their performance in pulling out the victory.

“Don’t ever get caught up in the numbers,” said CSU coach Jim McEl-wain. “The number that counts is how you win, did you win the game? We could have had 700 yards of of-fense and lost, who cares right? So figure out a way to win the game, and I think they did.”

CU–Boulder coach Jon Em-bree realized the mistakes his team made, citing its lackluster running game as a major problem for setting up the passing game for quarterback Jordan Webb.

“(CSU) found a way to get it done and win the game and congratulations to them,” Embree said, whose team was out-rushed 125-58 in the game. “We weren’t effective running the ball. We better get that fi xed. It has been too many games of us not running the ball so we will get that fi gured out.”

While out-working CU–Boulder in the running game was key to the Rams’ success in the game, taking advantage of the Buffs’ other mistakes as well helped CSU pull out its fi rst victory in the Rocky Mountain Showdown in the last three years.

The Rams’ only two touchdowns of the game were aided by a muffed punt by Boulder at its own 20 yard line and a personal foul called on CU–Boulder’s Parker Orms for his shot to the head on Lou Greenwood, which extended a drive that turned into seven points for the Rams.

While capitalizing on Boulder’s unforced mental errors was key for CSU, it was also able to force the Buffs into diffi cult situations throughout the second half.

CSU was able to move Webb out of the pocket and give him less time to throw the ball due to different defensive blitzing packages, which turned out to be one of the deciding factors of the game.

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Showdown victory leads to alleged vandalismBY ELISABETH WILLNERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

It was a far cry from the ri-ots of 2009, but on Saturday, a small group of CSU students decided to celebrate CSU’s vic-tory over CU–Boulder by alleg-edly vandalizing a small part of campus.

A group of male students ran through Parmelee Hall and tore down decorations on all of the building’s fl oors, directly following the Rocky Mountain Showdown.

The perpetrators left few decorations untouched as they ran through the halls chanting “CSU, CSU, CSU,” in what Resi-dent Assistant Eduardo Parra called an act of vandalism by three students. Bulletin boards, posters, fl yers, white boards, policies and resident name tags were knocked down through-out the entire residence hall.

“All of the RAs were severely upset that the equivalent of over 100 hours of work and personal money and time invested into creating welcoming and safe communities was destroyed in a celebratory rampage within a couple minutes after the game ended,” Parra said in an email to the Collegian.

Of the 16 halls in Parmelee, 10 of them were damaged in the incident, according to Parra. Parmelee RA’s reported the inci-dent to the CSU Police Depart-ment and Confl ict Resolution and Student Conduct Services.

CSUPD had not fi led a re-port as of 5 p.m. Monday, but wrote in an email to the Colle-gian that one “will be coming.”

The alleged vandalism hap-pened on an otherwise quiet night. There were no major in-cidents following the annual game between CSU and CU on campus, according to CSUPD.

Most residents said they were disappointed with the students involved with the al-leged vandalism.

See VANDALISM on Page 6

Papers and posters lie on the ground after an alleged vandalism in Par-melee that affected 10 of the 16 halls.

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Musican B.o.B looks over the CSU crowd on the intramural fi elds at his concert last year. ASAP is set to lose $62,000 at this year’s Breathe Carolina concert.


to come.to come.to come.to come.to come.to come.

Handling Defeat

CU–Boulder wins the Rocky Moun-tain Showdown more often than not, which has made them hor-rible at handling loss. “Mistake” and “luck” tend to start appearing when Boulder students discuss losing the Show-down. Thanks, Buffs fans, for letting us know you hate losing. It makes our enjoy-ment even more satisfying.

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS Community Briefs

Creative writing reading Sept. 6

The Department of En-glish and the Organization of Graduate Student Writers invites you to join them for the Creative Writing Pro-gram’s Fall 2012 Reading Series at Colorado State University.

The series begins Thursday, Sept. 6 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the University Art Mu-seum at the University Center for the Arts. The reading series will feature special guests and school faculty reading from many genres of poetry, fiction and essays.

The first author pre-sented this semester is E.J. Levy, who teaches nonfiction at Colorado State University. Levy’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Salmagundi, and The Pushcart Prize An-

thology.

High Park Fire symposium Sept. 10

CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources is pre-senting a one day, free sym-posium to provide informa-tion about the effects of the High Park Fire and sustain-able solutions for recovery. “High Park Fire: From Sci-ence to Action & Recovery,” will be featured at the CSU Lory Student Center The-atre on Monday, Sept. 10 from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Warner College’s lead-ing experts in fire science and post-fire ecology and restoration will be speak-ing, along with respond-ers to the High Park Fire and homeowners directly affected by the fire. High-lighted speakers include U.S. Forest Service Dep-uty Chief for State and Private Forestry James Hubbard, High Park Fire Incident Commander Bill Hahnenberg and direc-tor of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute Tony

Cheng.

TriMedia Film Festival Sept. 7-9

On Sept. 7-9, the annual TriMedia Film Festival will show several premiers at venues across Fort Collins. There will be more than 50 independent theatre and film performances, with several showings at CSU’s Lory Student Center The-atre.

Highlighted showings include “The Citizen,” which will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Lincoln Center and “Red Dog,” an award-winning film based on true events, will be featured at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Lory Student Center The-ater. Tickets are available online at www.trimediaf-estival.org or at the door. Online ticket sales close Sept. 6 at 9 p.m.

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Patrons ride through Old town Fort Collins Saturday morning during Tour de Fat. The annual ride and festival attracts more than 20,000 costume clad riders.

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CORRECTION

In Friday’s article “Tour de Fat: Getting weird on two wheels,” it was incorrectly stated that the sun rises over the mountains. The sun actually rises over the plains. The Collegian regrets its error.

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that’s gotten big when they finally do your show.”

Starbuck said Program Council receives $5.50 in student fees per year which add up to just under $200,000 and has an op-erating budget of approxi-mately $400,000.

The other $200,000 comes from providing ser-vices like marketing, a full-blown production team and security to outside businesses.

Program Council also operates a small club, Club 156, where a small cover charge is implemented.

With help from this outside revenue, Program Council is able to host about 75 events per year on campus, free to charge for CU students.

The weekend of Aug. 25 saw 9,500 student’s show up to see electro-funk band Ghostland Observatory at the CU Welcome Fest. Star-buck said the budget for that show was approximate-ly $100,000 and no cover was charged for entry.

Ho said, however, that the two organizations have different mission statements.

“I think our organiza-

tion is run differently. We’re a non-profit so our men-tality is different. We have staff from a wide variety of majors, from landscape ar-chitects to social workers,” Ho said. “We do our best to cater to all the students at CSU, we want to provide a wide range of entertain-ment that’s not always mu-sic.”

According to students the buzz around RamJam this year hasn’t been the same as years before.

“Last year (RamJam) was a big deal. I heard about it everywhere, but haven’t seen anything this year,” said junior equine science major Talon Speaect.

As for student fees be-ing used to pay for enter-tainment for students, Spe-aect said it was probably worth it.

“It’s a good opportuni-ty at the beginning of the year to meet other people, if you’re at the concert then the people around you are into the same music and it creates a community.”

A corn maze in Octo-ber, an interactive murder mystery and fireworks at homecoming are a few ex-amples of the 55 events ASAP puts on each year.

As for the choice of entertainers at RamJam, ASAP Executive Director, Heather Jones said lining up the right act at the right time can be tricky. She said in some cases performers don’t even want to do shows on college campuses.

Part of this year’s selec-tion came about as the re-sults of surveys and focus groups ASAP conducted on campus. The results said students showed an inter-est in acts different than the hip-hop shows which have been prevalent in the past.

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

$124,183 – The amount ASAP lost from its 2011 RamJam event, featuring B.o.B and Sean Kingston. The show’s budget was $172,000. ASAP sold 5,241 tickets to generate $47,817 in revenue. $62,000 – The amount ASAP will lose from its $160,000 RamJam event under the best case scenario. The organization hopes to generate $98,000 in ticket revenue by selling all of its 8,000 tickets.$18.42 – The amount each CSU student taking more than 6 credits each semester pays in student fees to ASAP.

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RAMJAM | Comparing programs

BIKE | Tour promotes communityContinued from Page 1

Kristopher Hite, were dressed in homemade owl costumes.

“The entire costumes are based on recycled materials purchased primarily at the Arc,” she said.

For some people, the tour even helps bring the Fort Col-

lins community together. “Every now and again I

see people wearing CSU gear and I like the community be-tween CSU and Fort Collins,” said Marykate Franks, a se-nior environmental health major at CSU.

“I’m a really big fan of New Belgium’s culture for being bike friendly,” Franks

said. “Fort Collins is one of the most bike friendly cit-ies in the nation. It’s a great message for kids, being in the bike parade and getting them started so young, to say it’s ok to have fun, but to be safe.”

Staff writer Lianna Salva can be reached at [email protected]

By DEVIN O’BRIENThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The first large-scale study of the High Park Fire’s environmental effects is being conducted by CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources and the National Ecological Observatory Net-work (NEON).

The project has the poten-tial to help with the recovery of the fire’s 136-square-mile burn area by providing information to communities about how to deal with environmental is-sues raised by the blaze.

The project will utilize NE-ON’s Airborne Observation Platform along with a CSU ground team of 11 people.

According to principal in-vestigator Michael Lefsky, the CSU research team is divided into the physical science and forest ecology groups, most of which work in the new De-partment of Ecosystem Sci-ence and Sustainability.

The physical science team looks at water quan-tity and quality along with the potential for floods and other natural hazards. They will look at the movement of sediment via silt fences as well as use rain gauges to ex-amine rainfall. Water quality will be assessed by examin-ing the amount of sediment in the Poudre River.

Finding the impact of the fire on the forest is left to the forest ecology group. The job of the two field crews will be, according to Lefsky, to examine stems, species and the health of crowns. They will also document the parts of the forest which have been burned.

The other aspect of the study is access to NEON’s Air-borne Observation Platform. These platforms include an imaging spectrometer, a waveform light detection and

ranging instrument, a high resolution digital camera and a GPS and Inertial Measure-ment Unit subsystem. Twin Otter aircraft will be used to deploy the Airborne Obser-vation Platform.

The LiDar data will provide the ability to look at the forest canopy in 3D, allowing the sci-entists to see the severity of the burn in a top-down view.

In an email to the Colle-gian, NEON Chief Science Officer and Principal Inves-tigator, David Schimel, said the equipment will provide information on topography and foliage. These items can be used to examine biodi-versity, wildlife habitat, the influence of insects and sim-ilar biological factors.

“While most forest anal-yses have relied on detailed measurements of compara-tively few trees, this system provides many of these same measurements on millions of trees,” Schimel said.

Lefsky said the project will look into the causes of fire severity and add to knowl-edge about areas vulnerable to conditions like erosion. He also said the project is “mostly about assessing the effect of prefire conditions and provid-ing very detailed baseline con-ditions against which future conditions can be compared.”

According to professor of watershed sciences Lee MacDonald, there is already growth at the burn area. Shrubs, aspens and grasses are already making a return. The area is recovering quick-ly because most of the area had only a low or medium intensity burn. This will have an effect on erosion.

“Almost all of the ash has been washed off,” MacDon-ald said. “There shouldn’t be much erosion next year.”

NEON is based in Boulder and will have 60 sites across

the U.S. to examine natural resources and biodiversity, according to a press release.

The Warner College of Natural Resources includes the departments of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Forest Rangeland and Stewardship, Geosci-ences and Human Dimen-sions of Natural Resources.

According to the col-lege’s website, other projects in the Warner departments include studies on natural gas’s effect on mule deer mortality and development’s impact on wildlife.

Collegian writer Devin O’Brien can be reached at [email protected].

Warner sees High Park Fire area in NEON vision

Over 50 costumed gnomes banned together to celebrate New Belgium’s cycling circus, Tour de Fat, Saturday afternoon. The festivities were open to all ages with proceeds benefiting Fort Collins Bike Co-op, Bike Fort Collins and Overland Mountain Bike Club.

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“I think our organization is run di�erently. We’re a non-pro�t so our mentality is di�erent.”

Val Ho | ASAP Marketing Director

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The annual Rocky Mountain Showdown is the most anticipat-ed game of any Rams’ football season, but this year there was more on the line than an in-state rivalry.

And CSU delivered in rare style.

Ram athletics is undergoing systematic change — a new ath-letic director was hired in De-cember, and since then, three prominent coaches left or were fired and a debate whether to build a $250 million on-campus stadium has fractured the Fort Collins community.

Watching (new) head foot-ball coach Jim McElwain on the sideline Saturday was a more compelling argument for the stadium than any presented by supporters during the last six months. His frenzied pacing, red-faced approach to coaching embodies the emotional trans-formation that (new) Athletic

Director Jack Graham advocates for, and it’s hard not to “Be Bold” when faced with such enthusi-asm.

Criticism against the pro-posed stadium has focused

on the fact that our football team’s record during the last three years is 9-27 — a valid point when asking if the pro-gram deserves such an expen-sive gift.

Saturday’s win — while an important one — reveals noth-ing about the rest of the season. The Rams football team could once again go 3-9.

But what Saturday’s game showed is that a team whose spirit has been notably flat in re-cent years is now vibrant, excit-ed and optimistic — more than can be said for teams of recent memory.

As CSU pushes to enter a new era of athletics, McEl-wain seems to be a personal-ity that will lead by example and bring back CSU’s eroded pride.

Hopefully, McElwain will use CSU as more than just a step-ping stone to a career at a big-ger D-1 school (we’re still bitter about Tim Miles), and continue to personify the Ram pride that he showed on Saturday.

If he does, the “Bold New Era” will become a bold reality.

I was innocently walk-ing across the plaza on my way to a 5 p.m. class when I, in a moment of weakness, accidentally made eye con-tact with someone.

If you have been on CSU’s campus for any ex-tended period of time, you know that you never — un-der any circumstances — look anyone in the eye on the Lory Student Center Plaza after the hour of 4 p.m. Seems melodramatic, no? The innocent freshmen or naïve upperclassmen may be wondering why I would ever be so rude.

Let me explain: after 4 p.m., many sane students are done with classes for the day and have fled the plaza in search of better things to do. This also happens to be when the religious fanatics come out to play. Making eye contact with someone of this nature is basically telling them that yes, you would love to sit and de-bate religion with them for hours. Since they have no identifying factors, like a warning label on their forehead, you never know which innocent looking student will be the next one wanting to “ask you a cou-ple questions”.

Sure enough, that ill-fated evening on the plaza ended up with me desperately trying to ditch the annoying guy following me while furiously pointing to a quote in Hebrew. This one was on a mission to make me realize that there is a God the Mother, and that I will not be accept-ed into Heaven because I don’t know the Holy Spir-it’s specific name. He didn’t even ask if I was interest-ed in hearing it before he launched into his spiel that was so theologically inac-curate I was literally cring-ing.

Here’s the thing: I am a Christian. I went through 12 years in a parochial school and studied the Good Book cover to cover. And yet, the people who want to debate religion with me pick up a Bible and think that they’re suddenly an expert — that they have a better grasp on salvation and the Holy Trin-ity than I do. Somehow, I doubt that.

Even though I am a Christian, I would rather

stick myself in the eye with very sharp objects than engage in a discus-sion with these people. Every time I do, I am told exactly what passage I’m not grasping, and why my particular ideology, that I’ve been studying for 20 years, is wrong.

For those of you that find it necessary to both-er innocent people on their way to class by ask-ing them about their reli-gious affiliation, I have a couple questions for you:

First off, what exactly do you think you’re go-ing to accomplish? Nev-er, in all my years, have I heard of anyone finding Jesus because a com-plete stranger wouldn’t leave them alone until they’d heard about the “right” religious practice. Unless people are liv-ing under rocks, they’ve heard about the whole Jesus thing. Whether or not they believe it is their choice, but I highly doubt you’re going to make any-one a believer by ruining their quiet walk to class.

Secondly, do you not realize that people go out of their way to avoid you? Those people that make elaborate excuses as to why they cannot have a discussion with you are most likely ly-ing through their teeth in order to avoid hav-ing to sit through your “couple questions”. And those poor folks that couldn’t come up with a decent excuse fast enough? While you’re re-citing your speech about God the Mother, they’re desperately looking at anything but you in the hopes that you’ll give up and walk away.

It’s time for you to keep your theology to yourself until the right time, in the right place, when someone actually wants to hear what you have to say. Because re-ally, you know it’s bad when Christians — peo-ple that are supposedly supposed to be on your side — don’t want to be affiliated with you.

It’s time for you to stop putting a bad name on Christianity and zip your lips. I’m done avoid-ing you, I’m done being suspicious of everyone that looks me in the eye, and I’m done having people follow me to tell me that I’m going to hell. I’m done.

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

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OUR VIEW

Bold new athletics

“As CSU pushes to enter a new era of

athletics, McElwain seems to be a

personality that will lead by example and bring back an eroded

CSU pride.”

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By BRITTANY JORDAN

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“It’s time for you to stop putting a bad name on

Christianity and zip your lips.”

Did you watch the Republican Na-tional Convention? Neither did any-body else — it had the second lowest Republican convention television rat-ings in history.

Oddly, the convention has yet to give the Romney-Ryan campaign much of a bump in the polls — at least a few poll percentage points can usually be scrounged from the national convention hype. This failure at the polls is indicative of one thing to me: Romney must uti-lize the support and ideas of the Liberty Movement or he will lose this election.

Paul Ryan came out swinging in his speech at the convention, hammering the Obama administration on the five trillion dollars of new debt that has been acquired during his first term.

"We need to stop spending money we don't have," Paul Ryan proclaimed to an enthusiastic crowd.

While Paul Ryan is touted as the face of an administration that will tack-le our deficit problem, however, he is also a Republican that voted for many of the measures that ballooned our deficit, even giving an impassioned speech during the financial crisis urg-

ing his fellow representatives in Con-gress to vote for the TARP relief.

Coming in front of Congress to ve-hemently promote giving billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to corpora-tions doesn’t sound like much of a bud-get slashing politician to me.

His position as the deficit cutter is perfect for his appointment as pre-sumptive vice president — seeing as how the vice president has very little power and the Romney administration will likely do little to restrain the deficit.

Paul Ryan is supposed to be a big deficit cutter, but the plan Paul Ryan proposed refuses to cut so much as a penny from defense — of which I’m sure that there is plenty of room for cuts, seeing as the U.S. spends more on defense than just about the rest of the world combined.

Our whole debate on spending in consideration to the defense budget is wildly skewed. Even the sequestration budget bill would keep military spending at 2006 levels when you adjust for infla-tion — which in terms of GDP matches the rate of spending we had at the height of World War II. Even if we cut our mili-tary budget in half, we’d still be the great-est military power on the world by far.

The list of GOP speakers at the con-vention was indicative of the future of the Republican party. With speakers to placate the religious right (Rick Santo-rum), the Tea Party (Marco Rubio, Chris Christie), and even women voters (Ann Romney, Condoleeza Rice).

The Ron Paul/Liberty Movement was the only potential section of the GOP that received little attention at the Convention, save for featuring Sen. Rand Paul, who had been met with some an-imosity by the Liberty Campaign for his

official endorsement of Mitt Romney.Rand Paul used his time in the spot-

light to differentiate himself from much of the discourse usually heard on the stage of a Republican National Conven-tion. “Republicans must acknowledge that not every dollar spent on the mil-itary is necessary or well spent,” Sen. Rand Paul said while addressing the floor on day three of the event. Advice that Paul Ryan should definitely take note of.

It is ideas like these and paying spe-cial importance to civil liberties is what would sway the Liberty Campaign to the ranks of the Romney camp, but as of yet Romney has failed to win them over.

In an interview with the New York Times, Ron Paul claimed that organiz-ers of the convention told him he could deliver a speech on two conditions. First Romney’s campaign would get to look over and approve the speech before it was given, and second, Paul would have to publicly endorse Mitt Romney.

Ron Paul refused on all accounts and reiterated his opposition to Gover-nor Romney’s philosophy and positions. His followers, also unready to drop their convictions and follow Romney, have indicated their enthusiasm and support will go to Gov. Gary Johnson instead.

To win this election, Romney has to try to capture some of the grassroots momentum of Liberty Campaign and embrace some of their positions — such as the obvious need to reduce defense spending to decrease the deficit. Without these changes, Romney will never win.

Editorial Editor Kevin Jensen is a se-nior English major. His column appears Tuesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

By Kevin Jensen

Liberty or death for GOP at RNC

Can I ask you a couple questions?

Across the board, universities require their students to complete a set of general education courses. Their purpose is — through a widespread series of courses — to provide each student with the necessary educational foundation in which the remainder of their higher education will build upon.

Essentially, they are supposed to be content rich.

I, on the other hand, would have to disagree. Besides the fact that I have a whole slew of problems with the structure of our university’s compilation of the core curriculum classes, I would have to say there is one aspect, one area of emphasis that is missing, that has led me to believe that the setup isn’t providing its students with the most fruitful and complete set of courses as possible.

My main problem is this: Our educational system puts little to no emphasis on the value of students knowing how to effectively budget or de-velop financial prowess.

What’s happening as far as core curriculum courses go at the univer-sity level is, as you have figured out, that the liberal arts have a slight leverage over the science and math component. This arrange-ment says a lot about the importance that is placed on certain subjects.

Our university has de-termined a set group of courses that are important for all students in order to have a more desirable and competitive education that encourages learning and development, all while disregarding the fact that knowing how to success-fully manage your funds is more crucially important now than ever before. So why is financial education not a component as well?

Because, tradition-ally speaking, it has been stressed that the impor-tance of teaching historical perspectives, basic math, composition and global awareness outweighs that of financial education.

What’s the root of this problem? Well, like the roots of a tree, there are many. For one, budgeting, much like grammar, is a skill that we are just ex-pected to know how to do, and do well.

Just as all the excep-tions and rules of English grammar make it difficult to master for many stu-

dents, budgeting, essen-tially money management, exists in the same way.

Instead, we have credit and debit cards, checks, online banking, loans and jobs that don’t pay nearly enough to cover all that needs to be paid. All of which — although excep-tional resources and tools — complicate effective money delegation by cre-ating this illusion of invis-ible money, and in terms of loans and credit cards, an illusion of free money, es-pecially when you get that hefty refund check depos-ited directly into your bank account.

People in general, I fig-ure, have a difficult time conceptualizing our future situations. Specifically, it’s difficult to imagine where we will be at financially in the future. I think many times, we assume that when we graduate, we are guaranteed a well paying job that will cover all the bills that we have acquired.

Ideally, that hope isn’t impossible to attain, but we have become accustomed to disregarding the words of Benjamin Franklin en-tirely by acquiring copious amounts of debt, and do-ing and learning tomorrow what we could have done and learned today.

We spend now and worry later.

For example, the Huff-ington Post claims that the average college graduate as of 2010 has accumulat-ed $25,250 in loans. If the monthly minimum pay-ment is $150, after approxi-mately 14 years, you will have finished paying back your debt, naïvely assum-ing there is no interest.

This concept is, as I have come to realize, difficult for many people to grasp. How do you wrap your head around $25,000 of debt? How do you get people to realistically understand what it means to have bills and successfully allocate money to its creditors?

The solution, I be-lieve, is implementing and requiring students to take money management courses.

But my complaint isn’t solely focused on how to manage loan repayments. We need to shift some at-tention to teaching stu-dents early in their life the benefits and rewards of budgeting and financial planning.

If the array of core sub-jects is so inherently valu-able and they serve their purpose of expanding the educational horizons of students, the implemen-tation of money manage-ment classes can serve the same purpose. Being knowledgeable and aware of your financial reality is just as important as read-ing comprehension, basic math, biology or literature.

Nicole Frazier is a senior English and Spanish major. Feedback can be sent to [email protected].

By Nicole Frazier

Yays and Nays

OPINION TUESDAYCOLLEGIAN

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 |

A change in AUCC courses

Yay | To the Rams beating CU–Boulder. Take that, dirty hippies.

Nay | To the idiots who trashed Parmelee Hall because of the Showdown victory. Try celebrating without destroying things.

Yay | For not rioting after we beat the Buffs this year. Three’s not just a crowd — it’s a riot.

NAY | To not having another day off until Thanksgiving break.

Yay | To Tour de Fat. Beer, bikes, costumes — the trifecta of fun.

Nay | To Obama’s CU–Boulder visit making “The New York Times” front page. Boulder is anything but a swing vote.

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While learning, keep teachers in mindGUEST COLUMN

“�e solution, I believe, is implementing and requiring

students to take money management courses.”

Here we are. Back on campus. Here I am. Back in the Collegian as a guest columnist. I have been writing for the Collegian off and on since 2007. Al-though having a Monday noon dead-line often dominates my weekends, there is nothing I like better than writ-ing about what I love to do: teach.

Back in 2007, one of “my boys” Sean was the editorial editor at the Col-legian so I approached him with an of-fer to write a column about teaching. I know that the Collegian is a paper “for the students and by the students,” but I know it never hurts to ask. He said “yes” and I was thrilled. Before I set fin-gers to keyboard, I named the column “Human at the Whiteboard.”

I teach writing (among other things) as a part of my job teaching in the Honors Program. The English De-partment drills the idea of “audience” into our heads so that, in-turn, we drill the idea of audience into the heads of our students. The students on campus are my audience. My message through-out this column is that teachers are hu-man, too.

I can think and plan about a les-son for any of the subjects that I teach, but until I use the activity in my class, I never know how effective it can be. I need to be student-centered in order to do the best job that I can.

This column encourages you to do the same: to take the teacher’s life

into consideration as you go through classes together. Understand that the teacher is human, too. We make mis-takes, we have bad days, we rely on the community of students to do our jobs well.

Throughout this column, I use the word “teacher” because I feel more like a “teacher” than the idea of “profes-sor.” I like to think I “teach” students and they can take my lessons and learn from them. I do not “profess “ anything as “the truth.” Higher education should be a place where students hear infor-mation, think about it and come to their own conclusion about the issues that we are faced with as visitors on this big blue marble.

In all of my classes, after I go through the syllabus and talk about the goals for the semester, I tell my stu-dents that I am human. I have my expe-riences and opinions that I bring into the classroom. I have many biases and I tell the students that I am not shy about expressing those. I respect the opinions of the students in return, because many have an opposing perspective. I tell my students that the only way to learn is to take the opposite opinions into consid-eration. We cannot learn by looking at one side of the coin, but the other side that may not be obvious to us.

We are all humans before we be-come students and teachers. I don’t know why some think that we have to

drop our human nature the minute we step into the classroom. There is this idea that teachers leave this persona at the door. I refuse to do so. Think about the teachers that you have liked over the years. Did you like them because they were aces at relaying information well? That is great. In higher education we are all well educated, but giving a person a Ph.D. does not mean that they can teach.

This takes years of practice (and mistakes, methink). Besides relaying information in a way that the students can understand, many of us respect the teachers we like because of who they are. Their humanity and the way that they communicate respect in the class-room are just as important as their aca-demic knowledge.

Classes are going to be easier if you establish a rapport with the human at the whiteboard. One of the things that students should do in the classroom is introduce themselves to their teachers. This establishes human contact, so that yes indeed, the class becomes a place of humanity instead of a cold and com-petitive place.

I sincerely wish you all the best suc-cesses this semester. This comes from the bottom of my human heart.

Anne Merline is an instructor for the University Honors Program. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

By A.J. FOLTZThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Last week, the president of the United States came to Colorado State University, which was the first presi-dential visit in school history. On Sun-day, President Barack Obama visited Colorado for the eighth time this year to give a speech at CU-Boulder, deliv-ering the same message he gave in his speech at CSU: Young people need to vote like they did in 2008 to swing Colo-rado in Obama’s favor and quite possi-bly decide the entire election.

Your vote really does matter — es-pecially in Colorado.

Colorado’s nine electoral votes mean that it’s the largest tossup state in the West. According to a survey taken in Au-gust by Public Policy Polling (PPP), “vot-ers under the age of 30 comprised 18 per-cent of Colorado voter turnout in 2008, outnumbering voters over the age of 65.”

PPP also found that here in Colo-rado, “young voters favor President Obama by a 59/27 spread”.

This support from young people, a class of voters that has often been dis-missed as “apathetic” and “unreliable”, gives President Obama the support and energy he needs in order to win this No-vember. Young people can’t ever under-

estimate the impact our voice can have on our county’s future.

With Election Day just 62 days away (even sooner for Colorado since our state has early voting), I know that just saying I support President Obama isn’t enough. So, I have a message for my fel-low Rams and young people: Just say-ing we support the president won’t win the election.

We have to take our support from door to door, from block to block, and register as many voters as we can. For many students it will be their first time voting, which should be exciting not only because of the opportunity to shape their own futures, but the future of our nation.

As if registering to vote wasn’t easy enough by just going to www.gottareg-ister.com, there’s now an incentive for CSU students to register to vote with Students for Obama. The Students for Obama teams from the University of Colorado and Colorado State Univer-sity have just kicked off a voter registra-tion competition dubbed: “The Rocky Mountain Rumble”. So, be a proud Ram and take part in giving the buffa-loes their second defeat of the year by getting yourself and your friends regis-tered to vote.

This election could come down to

just a few votes in a single state, and even one conversation can make the difference between moving forward or falling backward. It might come down to registering one new voter or recruit-ing one more volunteer. Addressing the crowd at CU Boulder on Sunday, President Obama said, “What they’re (Republicans) counting on is that you get so discouraged by this (avalanche of attacks and insults) that at a certain point you say, ‘ You know what, I’m go-ing to leave it up to someone else’ … I’m counting on something different. I’m counting on you.”

Get registered to vote. Then, get involved in the effort to get President Obama reelected whether it’s by go-ing door to door, doing some phone banking, getting people registered to vote, or a combination of the three. If we all commit to doing these things to organize our communities, the com-bined impact will ensure that President Obama can keep strengthening and standing up for students and a strong middle class.

A.J. Foltz is a freshman political sci-ence major. His column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

Colorado: Why Your Vote Really Matters

“We have to take our support from door to door, from block to block, amd register as many voters as we can.”


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“They changed it quite a bit,” Webb said of the pressure packages the Rams brought in the sec-ond half. “They started going way more one high, bringing a little more pres-sure and we just didn’t handle it well.”

The Rams now look ahead to the defending FCS Division–I champion North Dakota State on Saturday.

“The last time I checked, Alabama and these guys were Division–I National Champi-ons,” McElwain said. “What everybody has to understand is, we won a game. Lets get excited about it for this bus

trip on the way home, cor-rect all the mistakes and then move forward.”

Football Beat Reporter An-drew Schaller can be reached at [email protected].

Runningback Chris Nwoke streches for a ball in the third quarter at the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown. Nwoke injured his ankle during the Showdown and is questionable for this Saturday’s game against North Dakota State.


SHOWDOWN | Preparing for Dakota State

VANDALISM | Some damage le� uncleanedContinued from Page 1

“I was upset that they had gone through and trashed our hall,” said un-declared freshman student Brandon Mohr, who lives on the second fl oor of Parmel-ee. “It’s disappointing that people would do something like that.”

Garret Ching, a fresh-man music therapy major, agreed.

“I’m glad you have school spirit,” Ching said. “Just don’t destroy our school.”

In some halls, resi-dents and RA’s worked Saturday and Sunday to replace the damaged dec-orations. Parra said the

residents of his hall had tried to help clean up the mess, but that much was damaged and ripped.

He plans to wait to put all the decorations back, however, because he wants people to see what hap-pened and understand the importance of respecting the hall.

“Right now I think our community decorations are kind of a privilege and I think that privilege was disrespected, so I’ve re-voked that privilege tem-porarily,” Parra said. “It will be back.”

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

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By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

CSU quarterback Garrett Grayson is one cool cat. Ask anyone.

“He’s always poised, that guy’s not going to show any real emotion,” center Weston Richburg said. “He’s a great leader. He’s a cool customer in the huddle, which is great to have.”

Grayson, a sophomore, started only the fourth game in his young career against CU-Boulder in the Rocky Mountain Showdown Satur-day earning his fi rst victo-ry. But his day was marked more by the plays he didn’t make.

“Going back, I was re-ally happy with how he took care of the football. I thought that was really good,” said CSU coach Jim McElwain at his weekly press conference Monday.

“I think he made good decisions and choices. Not to take a sack, throw it away if it’s not there; take a check down when the check down’s there. All those things that are in the pro-gression of a quarterback, I think, is monumental.”

For the fi rst time, Grayson made it through an entire game without turn-ing the ball over helping the Rams beat their bitter in-state rivals. Grayson threw effi ciently, completing 66 percent of his passes (14-for-21), two touchdowns and yes, no interceptions.

“I’m more confi dent

than I’ve ever been in my life,” Grayson said. “I told everybody before the game, I’ve been playing football since I’ve been four and I’ve never felt like I’ve had real brothers in my life, and I go out there and I play for them and they’re all confi -dent in me, hopefully, and I’m confi dent in them 100 percent.

“Hopefully I have many more of these games.”

Grayson’s fl at line de-meanor in the huddle has gained something arguably more important than yards on a stat sheet—their trust.

“You feel comfortable. You know that Garrett’s go-ing to get you the ball when he needs to get you the ball,” wide receiver Marquise Law said. “You just feel confi dent in him, and it’s great to have him so calm. You just believe in him.”

While Grayson made steps toward becoming a more confi dent football player, there were problems with the CSU offense. Prob-lems both coaches and the players identifi ed.

“We did not play any-where near where we need to play. Our execution was horrible,” McElwain said. “We left a ton of yardage on the fi eld. We need to create some explosive plays ... we didn’t get enough of those. You play the game to fi nd out your defi ciencies or things you need to work on, and obviously that’s something we need to get better at.”

The Rams struggled to

convert third downs going 5-of-15, and couldn’t fi nd ways to run the ball at points in the game averaging a low 2.8 yards per carry. But de-spite all that, CSU did fi nd the building blocks needed to create an identity on of-fense.

“You gotta start some-where. I don’t even know if I expected us to do as well as we did,” Richburg said. “We gotta work on the run game, stickin’ on our blocks, pass protection. We’re gon-na have to get in the fi lm room and prepare for next week and continue to kind of mold together and get ev-erybody on the same page.”

Last week is now in the rearview and the focus on CSU’s next opponent North Dakota State. The FCS Na-tional Champions from 2011 gave up just 12.7 points per

game, including wins over Division-I schools Minneso-ta and Kansas the past two years.

“We only have one win so far,” sophomore Charles Lovett said. “So we can’t hold our heads too high right

now.”Sports Editor Cris Tiller

can be reached at [email protected].

By KYLE GRABOWSKIThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

After a rough road tour-nament in Wichita, Kan., the CSU volleyball team brought down the Canadi-an Hammer and rediscov-ered their confi dence.

The Rams overpowered Oklahoma 3-1 behind a ca-reer high 19 kills from senior outside hitter Dana Cranston (a.k.a the Canadian Hammer) to break their fi rst three game losing streak since 2008.

“We had our feet un-der us a little bit more, and as crappy as this weekend was, we learned a lot of things that we need to, that we might not have learned if we played a tournament like the fi rst weekend,” Cranston said. “As tough as it was I’m glad we did it, and I think we’re better today

because of it.”CSU fi nished long ral-

lies with kills and closed out tough, close sets rather than wilting like they did against Wichita State and Tennessee.

“The fi rst two sets were similar to the fi rst two sets we were playing the past few days. We couldn’t gener-ate many kills from outside hitting, and we got better at it in the last two sets,” CSU coach Tom Hilbert said.

Most of that was due to Cranston’s explosion. She blasted 12 of her 19 kills down in the second two sets and kept her errors down, which she struggled with in the preceding matches.

“She was down a little bit, but getting her some one-on-one opportunities really brought her back up,” redshirt sophomore setter Deedra Foss said.

The Rams struggled with the speed of Oklaho-ma’s offense early, but ad-justed quickly to fi nish with 15 blocks in the match.

“We practice that in our practice session, but I feel like at times we’re not run-ning it as fast as the actual team,” senior middle block-er Megan Plourde said. “Once you see it you just have to make those adjust-ments and as the game goes on it gets easier.”

Hilbert made a major adjustment by inserting freshman Adriana Culbert into the Wichita State tour-nament, and has started her in the last three games to sterling results.

“In transition or even serve-receive we have a threat from the right side now,” Foss said. “It opens up our offense and allows

us to get more kills.”CSU moved back above

.500 with the win, and re-gained some of its early season swagger ahead of Friday’s matchup with No. 12, Pepperdine.

“It wasn’t the prettiest thing in the world, but it was good enough to win against a good team, Hilbert said. “Hopefully we can build on this.”

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


Thursday: lost 1-3 at Wichita State

Friday: lost 2-3 vs Tennessee (in Wichita, Kan.)

Saturday: lost 1-3 vs BYU (in Wichita, Kan.)

Sunday: won 3-1 vs Okla-homa

WEEKEND RESULTS

Rams bounce back with win over Okla.VOLLEYBALL

Rams searching still for an identity on offense

Quarterback Garrett Grayson eyes a receiver downfi eld in the third quarter of the Rocky Mountain Showdown.

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