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Boulder

Top row: left to right, Pierce Hornung, Greg Smith. Bottom Row: left to right, Colton Iverson, Dorian Green, Wes Eikmeier. This is likely the starting lineup for the CU-Boulder game tonight in Boulder at the sold out Coors Events Center.

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By ANDREW SCHALLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Twelve months ago, in its ninth game of the season, CSU basketball pulled off a remarkable one-point victory over ri-val CU-Boulder in Fort Collins.

Following the victory, Rams fans stormed the court in celebration as the victory was a hallmark moment in CSU’s run to the NCAA tournament last year.

The handling of the win irked at least one Buffs player.

“You just kind of see when the lit-tle brother beats the big brother once, then they are going to be happy, they are going to rush the court,” CU guard Spencer Dinwiddie told The Denver Post Tuesday ahead of the showdown with CSU in Boulder Wednesday night.

“When we win tomorrow night, I don’t think our fans are going to do that.”

While the Buffs may be using the images from last year’s heartbreak-

ing loss as motivation, the Rams have maintained that they’re trying to keep an even keel heading into one of their toughest tests of the year.

“For us as a team, I don’t think it’s quite as big of a deal as what other people kind of make it out to be,” CSU guard Wes Eikmeier said.

“I understand it’s a rivalry game, these games always go neck and neck. But for us, we’ve just gotta stay on an even keel, approach it like another game and just go out and attack and play our game.”

The Rams will be looking to attack CU by continuing to dominate the boards as the Rams have out rebounded every op-ponent this year so far while managing to win all of their fi rst six games.

“It’s always in the paint where the game is won or lost,” CSU forward Pierce Hornung said. “So we know if we can dominate down in the paint that we’ll have a shot at winning the game.”

In addition to winning the battle on

the boards, the Rams’ defense will have to keep an eye on Dinwiddie, who has scored 24 points in each of the Buffs’ last two games.

Dinwiddie has showcased his abili-ty to score in multiple ways this season. Last week he scored 24 points in a win against Texas Southern while getting to the line 18 times, despite making only three fi eld goals in the game.

In a loss against Wyoming on Sat-urday, Dinwiddie showed his ability to make shots from all over the fl oor while shooting 8-14 from the fi eld and 4-9 from three-point range.

“He lets the game come to him,” CSU coach Larry Eustachy said. “He leads them in scoring and is far from taking the most shots. He gets fouled a lot and that’ll be huge, he’s got a great feel, a great way to play the game.”

If the Rams fi nd a way to contain Dinwiddie and the rest of the Buffs in a victory tonight, the Rams will have a resume-boosting win over a CU team that many have projected as an NCAA tournament team this year.

However, the Rams realize how diffi -cult it is to go on the road and overtake a team like CU which just lost its fi rst game of the season Saturday against Wyoming.

“Wyoming didn’t do us any favors by beating them,” Eustachy said. “You never wanna play a team off a loss, par-ticularly such a talented team that’s so well-coached.”

Men’s Basketball Beat Reporter An-drew Schaller can be reached at [email protected]

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By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Since acquiring Fort Collins’ Open Door Mission homeless shelter Nov. 16, offi cials at the Denver Rescue Mission (DRM) are excited to serve the local homeless population and ex-pand services to the estimated 800 homeless in the city.

The shelter –– renamed Fort Collins Rescue Mission –– was transferred to DRM after the prior owner, Rev. Richard Thebo, reached an agreement with the Colorado Attorney General after facing a lawsuit accusing him of improperly using donations for personal gain.

The new director, Chaplain Jim Carmack, said the shelter will continue with its mission

to serve the public while also expanding coordination ef-forts with other charities in town and offering more than a hot meal and warm bed.

“This will be more than a place to land if you have noth-ing,” said FCRM director and Chaplain Jim Carmack. “We’ll always be that emergency place, but what we really want to go after is chronic and inten-tional homelessness.”

DRM has been active in northern Colorado since the late 1990s. The organization runs Harvest Farms in Welling-ton, a self-sustaining farm for people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

“We love the Northern Colorado and Fort Collins area,” said Brad Meuli, DRM president and CEO. “We’re re-

ally interested in being part of the community and getting to know the lay of the land.”

Carmack said when some-one fi rst walks in the door, they’ll be allowed to stay for free the fi rst month.

If the individual agrees to enter into the Steps to Success program –– a four-step plan designed to encourage self-suf-fi ciency –– the shelter will focus on connecting that person with area social services and provid-ers who can offer counseling services, job opportunities and housing referrals.

If someone is dealing with addiction, they would have the choice to go to Harvest Farm. Spiritual guidance and integra-tion into local churches is also

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Denver Rescue Mission new owners of FoCo homeless shelter

Jim Carmack is the director at the Fort Collins Rescue Mission. The mission served lunch to the homeless on Tuesday at their shelter in Old Town.

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Craig Johnson author of the Sherriff

Longmire series does a book reading and signing in the CSU

Bookstore Tuesday. The Longmire series was adapted by A&E as a television series

and set ratings records for the channel which shows popular shows like The Walking Dead

and Breaking Bad. (Photo by Erin Mross)

Senior dance major capstone concert Dec. 7 and 8

CSU’s University Center for the Arts (UCA) presents “Two Pairs of Turtle Doves,” the senior dance major cap-stone concert.

Showings will occur Fri-day, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. and Sat-urday, Dec. 8 at 2 and 8 p.m. in the University Dance The-atre at the UCA, located at 1400 Remington Street.

Tickets are $14 for the public, $10 for CSU students and $9 for youth under 17 years-old, and are available at the UCA Ticket Offi ce or by phone at 970-491-2787. Free tickets for the Satur-day matinee performance will also be available on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis through the Commitment to Campus program.

Special lunch at the Aspen Grille Dec. 6 and 7

The Aspen Grille’s chef instructor, Garrett Overlee, will organizing the prepa-ration of a delicious three-course meal before students travel home for the holi-days.

The special menu event will take place Thursday and Friday, Dec. 6 and 7 at the Aspen Grille, located on the top fl oor of the Lory Student Center. Reservations are en-couraged.

Call 970-491-7006 Tues-day through Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to reserve a table or to learn about menu details.

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The lecture hall in room 131 of the Behavior Science Building was filled with bright smiles and a few teary eyes Dec. 3 as Campus Corps mentors and the youths they were paired with graduated after a semester of working together.

Approximately 100 fam-ily members, students and youth watched a slideshow of this semesters high-lights. Afterward, 35 youth and their mentors were called on stage to accept a graduation diploma, with each mentor giving his or her mentee a unique award –– among them “most like-ly to play for the Denver Broncos” and “most likely to be energetic.”

“Even though it’s such a busy week it is such an im-portant thing for me to be here at graduation to hear the youth talk about their experiences,” said Jennifer Krafchick, a human develop-ment and family studies pro-fessor and Campus Corps director. “It’s truly one of the most rewarding things I’ve been involved in.”

The youth are often referred into the program from the juvenile justice system but can also be at risk from bullying at school or because of potential stresses that come with a low-income environment.

After picking their men-tor at the beginning of the semester, the youth spend four hours one night a week on campus in group set-tings. The small groups ex-

plore campus together, eat a family meal, work on home-work, play sports and par-ticipate in arts and crafts.

“For me it’s been re-ally good to learn how to be a leader in different situations and know how to treat different kinds of people,” said Alexa Forest-er, a sophomore HDFS ma-jor and first year Campus Corps mentor.

In the five semesters since the program official-ly started, Krafchick said 600 youth and 900 CSU students have participated in the program.

Monday night was the first of four graduation cer-emonies set to take place this week.

One of the graduating youths,15-year-old Will Rodriguez, completed his fifth semester in Campus Corps Monday night. Ro-driguez voluntarily came into the program in fall 2010 after being placed into a juvenile diversion program for getting into legal trouble.

Even though he was in-timidated at first being on a college campus, he had so much fun with the expe-rience that he kept coming back each semester to be paired with a different CSU student mentor.

“I didn’t want to come [either],” Rodriguez said. “The first time I came I wanted to stay home and play Halo.”

One of the things Ro-driguez likes best about Campus Corps is getting help with homework, something he used to ig-

nore. This semester he came up with the idea for the group to make care packages for troops sta-tioned overseas.

Rodriguez’s mom, Fort Collins resident Laurie Hyland, said the program is a good way for young kids to come to a place where they can be them-selves and not be judged by other people.

“It’s positive. You hear

at the graduation all posi-tive stories,” Hyland said. “Not many places kids can go now and just be them-selves and meet a stranger and build a friendship. It’s a great program.”

After one semester in the program, 14-old Ra-cheal Krenning also wants to return for another se-mester. She said she loved the program because her grades have improved and

she’s seen firsthand what goes on on a college cam-pus, something she finds inspiring since she plans to be a veterinarian.

Her mom, Fort Collins resident Jennifer Heiney, said since her daughter started Campus Corps, her grades have improved dra-matically, she gets along better with her sister and her self-esteem has risen.

“She has had not very

good friendships or rela-tionships and social skills in elementary and mid-dle school,” Heiney said. “Kids can be extremely vi-cious. Based on what has been happened to her, the things that have been said, to her this was a safe zone for her; a place she was ac-cepted.”

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

Will Rodriguez, a sophomore at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, poses with his mentor Alexa Foster during the Campus Corps graduation Monday night. Campus Corps is a mentoring program that pairs CSU students with at-risk youth.

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Campus Corps youth, mentors graduate from program

“Not many places kids can go now and just be themselves and meet a stranger and build a friendship. It’s a great program”

Laurie Hyland | Fort Collins resident

The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3

To me, there are three things that signify that we are in that last stretch of the semester:

My opinion regard-ing coffee goes from “I nev-er touch the stuff” to “My heart only pumps heavily caffeinated dark roast.”

I forget that shower-ing daily is a social expec-tation.

Instructors begin passing out course evalua-tion forms.

Course evaluation forms are one of the few highlights of my days during this stressful and exhausting time of the se-mester. That makes my life sound pretty sad, but there it is.

I love course evalua-tions because they are the one time that, on the in-stitutional level, students are given any slight notion of having power over their schooling. It is the one time we are able to directly contribute to the quality of the education we receive.

For the few of you who are unaware, the course eval-uations are designed as such:

The first page, or “cov-er page,” is full of 20-odd questions regarding the quality of the course, in-struction, and the class-room facilities that are rated on a five-point scale ranging from Poor to Excel-lent. The questions cover a wide variety of topics that are important to consider when evaluating education from a quantitative stand-point. The information from cover pages dating all the way back to 1998 is available to the campus community at www.cours-esurvey.colostate.edu.

The second page of the survey is a space to provide comments. Only the in-structor of the course, and that instructor's boss, will ever see these comments. While the cover page in-formation is collected and tabulated as class data, the comments are presented individually and treated as separate information from the first page. At the bottom of this page, it is “requested” that students sign their name.

The problem is, I have had some professors tell me that if I chose not to sign my name my evaluation “doesn’t count,” will “not be considered,” and even that unsigned evaluations are “immediately thrown out.”

This makes me incred-ibly uncomfortable as a student evaluator. We are insured that our honesty can and will not be held against us. Precautions are

even taken — the instruc-tor leaves the room while we fill out the surveys, for instance. But can the uni-versity really guarantee that a professor will not hold our critiques against us?

It is true that instruc-tors don't see the evalua-tions until after grades for that course are assigned. But that doesn’t mean that if I leave a comment saying “Professor Y did not seem to be very knowledgeable about her subject, so I, Anna Mitchell, often felt as though this class was a waste of time,” it won't be harmful to me when I end up having another class taught by Professor Y in the future.

With these concerns in mind, I interviewed En-glish department chair Louann Reid about what happens to evaluations af-ter students fill them out and turn them in.

Reid informed me that having the signatures is in connection to the univer-sity-wide policy that states that, while all of the second pages are shown to profes-sors in order to help them improve their teaching, only signed comments (good or bad) may be used when instructors receive their for-mal evaluations, unless the department giving the eval-uation states otherwise.

The English depart-ment, for example, will con-sider both signed and un-signed comments in relation to the future of instructors.

“We take (all the eval-uations) seriously because we take students seriously,” Reid informed me.

While I'm glad depart-ments have the power to override it (though only some chose to), the univer-sity policy is absolutely hor-rific and has no benefits.

Anonymous critiques are more likely to be hon-est because the criticizer does not fear negative con-sequences that may result from their honesty. Taking away that anonymity takes away the one protection that students have. And we are are already a virtually powerless group.

Furthermore, the poli-cy puts teachers in a tough spot. Instructors often seem uncomfortable asking stu-dents to attach their names to their opinions. But they know that issues such as raises and tenure consid-eration could be changed by something as small as if a student does or does not sign. These student surveys are not the sole way that instructors are judged in their formal evaluations, of course. But it is the only in-put that students have.

The system is unethi-cal. It is inefficient.

My opinion should still count, even if it's un-signed.

Anna Mitchell is a ju-nior liberal arts major. Her columns appear Wednes-days in the Collegian. Let-ters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

The most important duty of our student government, according to the Associated Students of CSU website, is “advocating for student needs, whatever they may be.”

And while CSU students definite-ly need increased cheap, off-campus housing options, accepting a $5,000 donation from Campus Crest, the controversial developer behind the Grove, is not in line with this goal.

Campus Crest, which has a “D-” rating from the Better Business Bu-reau, owns 39 student housing proj-ects across the country. These de-velopments have been marred with concerns about sustainability and the treatment of its tenants, accord-ing to previous Collegian articles.

“The proper operation of stu-dent government requires that of-ficials and employees be indepen-dent, impartial and responsible only to students of the university,” section 1-1 of the ASCSU Code of Ethics states. How, exactly, can ASC-

SU claim to be impartial and advo-cating for students when it receives a $5,000 donation from an organi-zation that may potentially exploit them?

According to Andrew Oringer,

the director of the student Senate’s sustainability division, ASCSU at-tempted to avoid potential conflicts of interest by ensuring that, “Cam-pus Crest wasn’t looking for any-thing specific after the donation.”

But obvious conflicts of interest aside, it’s perception that really mat-ters. How can a student who may potentially have concerns about

Campus Crest truly think that their student government is on their side after it accepted $5,000 from the or-ganization?

We genuinely believe that ASC-SU officials do not think that this donation will create a conflict of interest as ASCSU tries to advocate for students. But again, it’s the per-ception of a conflict that can matter more than anything. Especially the perception of a conflict with a devel-oper that has a history of treating its student tenants poorly.

The ASCSU Code of Ethics claims that, “... officers and employ-ees of the Associated Students of Colorado State University shall at all times attempt to avoid even the ap-pearance of impropriety.”

Student government may not think that there’s anything impro-prietous about accepting a donation from Campus Crest. But as their own Code of Ethics states, appearance still matters.

The upcoming apocalypse has been a very poignant topic in recent times, what with the global calamity that has been foretold by the Mayans. It appears as if we’ve all got about 16 days to count our blessings, make up for lost time with significant others, say all the things that we were going to say but never quite had the time to get around to saying, et cetera, et cetera.

After all, that’s all the time we’ve got left before time runs out, right?

Well, not exactly. The end of the world has always been a very popular topic throughout the course of human history. Who knows? Maybe the world will end by the calculations of the May-ans, which have led to widespread hys-teria, panic and a marginally successful Roland Emmerich film.

Or perhaps the end of time will be brought about by a sudden multitude of earthquakes and tsunamis as pre-dicted by a doomsday cult in India. Maybe it’ll turn out that Harold Camp-ing was actually right and the Rapture will occur. We could get hit by a rogue meteorite; there are a couple near

misses that astronomers are predicting will happen in the near future. There’s also the possibility of the world ending with the rise of the zombie hoards; let’s not forget this summer’s bout of sud-den onset cannibalism.

For all of that, though, there’s also the chance that the world will contin-ue to spin as it always has, year in and year out, exactly as doomsday skeptics have been saying. Exactly as they have been saying ever since the very first end of the world prediction. In doing a little research on the end times, wondering whether or not I should begin to stock-pile emergency rations and say farewell to everyone I know, I stumbled across a fairly extensive list of failed “dooms-day” predictions.

Turns out, the very first recorded in-stance of a doomsday prediction was dis-covered on an Assyrian tablet that dates back to 2800 BC, about forty-eight hun-dred years ago. And the doomsday track record only goes downhill from there.

The second coming of Jesus Christ predates the predictions of Harold Camping by almost two millennia; he is very late. The world also should have ended on February 20th, 1524, when a colossal flood was predicted, caused by a planetary alignment in the constellation Pisces. French astrologer Pierre Turrel actually predicted four different days for the end of the world, which were to oc-cur in 1537, 1544, 1801, and 1814. He was correct zero out of four times.

Of course, it’s easy for one to brush off those predictions. They did occur hundreds of years ago in a more prim-itive age without the brilliant scientific advancements that have been made since then. However, doomsday skep-tics have yet to find success in the mod-

ern day as well.Remember June 6th, 2006? That

fateful day in June when the calendar formed the numerals 6-6-6, which was the sign of the Beast? People made a big deal about that day as well, and the world kept on turning without anything resembling an apocalyptic scenario.

Jan. 1, 2000 was also supposed to be a big end of the world year, with hun-dreds of predictions ranging from a hos-tile first contact with aliens, to Bill Clin-ton declaring himself Dictator-for-Life, to a global pandemic. Most notably, the world only saw an easily fixed computer glitch and the inauguration of George W. Bush (No, Democrats, that does not count as an apocalypse).

So bear this fact in mind when you begin your preparations for the end of the world this December: The world was supposed end hundreds, maybe thousands, of times over the course of recorded history. The world has not yet ended yet, which you may have noticed.

Statistically, it’s almost impossible for there to be 100 percent certainty in anything, but doomsday skeptics have been rightly calling baloney on end of the world predictions just about 100 percent of the time.

If you start getting a little nervous come December 21st, just keep that fact in mind and you’ll be okay. You might even have a little fun, because the end of days is, at least, a very good excuse for a kick-ass party.

Editorial Assistant Caleb Hendrich is a senior political science and journal-ism double major. His columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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Monday, December 5, 2012 |

OUR VIEW

Perception still matters

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

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By CALEB HENDRICH

“It’s the perception of a con�ict that can

matter more than anything.”

This is an unscientific poll conducted at Collegian.com and reflects the opinions of the Internet users who have chosen to participate.

YOUR TWO CENTS

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YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:

TODAY’S QUESTION:Would you rather leave your teacher evaluations unsigned?

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

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46% Disapprove. 33% Stadium should get off

my lawn. 21% Approve.

Apocalypse Now? Or Apocalypse... Maybe?

By ANNA MITCHELL

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By SKYLER LEONARDRocky Mountain Collegian

After Campus Crest Com-munities approached ASCSU about donating $5,000 to the student Senate’s sustainabil-ity division, Andrew Oringer, the director of the division, was hesitant.

“I really wanted to know that there was no strings attached in exactly what Campus Crest was looking for in the donation,” Oring-er said.

Campus Crest is cur-rently building an apart-ment complex in Fort Col-lins designed for students living off campus. Nation-wide, the company is known for providing off-campus living to students of various universities, but has come under fi re for constructing properties off schedule to the frustration of prospec-tive tenants who have had to temporarily adjust their living arrangement as a re-sult.

In 2011, former ASCSU Director of Government Af-fairs Chase Eckerdt brought up these concerns at city council meetings where community members dis-cussed whether Campus Crest should be allowed to build properties in city zones.

Eckerdt ultimately sup-ported their proposed proj-ect, called The Grove, citing the increasing need for stu-dent housing in Fort Collins.

But accepting the dona-tion has brought up ques-tions regarding whether it violated the organization’s code of ethics.

The ASCSU Senate Code of Ethics states, “student government requires that offi cials and employees be independent, impartial and responsible only to the stu-

dents of the university.”Lindon Belshe, the cur-

rent Director of Government Affairs at ASCSU, found the relationship with the com-pany to be necessary.

“Ultimately, ASCSU has always been supportive of the Grove, as it would ad-dress the growing need for affordable student housing in a close proximity to cam-pus,” wrote Belshe in an email to the Collegian.

Ensuring that Campus Crest Communities didn’t want anything in return for

the donation was a huge fac-tor for Oringer in deciding whether to accept the dona-tion.

“We wanted to make sure Campus Crest wasn’t looking for anything specif-ic after the donation. I real-ly thought hard about that,” Oringer said.

To ensure there wasn’t any problem in accepting the donation, Oringer said he contacted a universi-ty that previously received a donation from Campus Crest. After fi nding no prob-

lems, and being assured the donation was genuine, Oringer agreed to take the money.

The $5,000 contributed a signifi cant amount of mon-ey to the Sustainability Divi-sion whose previous budget was $500.

Oringer is still deciding on how to best spend this money at time of print.

“Right now, I’m still de-liberating over whether to use it to secure the division’s place at ASCSU, or to doing a big project next semester,”

Oringer said.The ASCSU Sustainabil-

ity Division has been doing multiple things this semes-ter to help move toward a greener campus and com-munity.

Initially the company had no intentions of donat-ing to ASCSU. They were looking for any organization on campus dedicated to sus-tainability. But the emphasis Oringer put on community work is one of the reasons why Campus Crest Commu-nities took interest in stu-

dent government.In a news release sent

out last week, Campus Crest co-founder Mike Hartnett praised Oringer’s work off campus.

“He is targeting off cam-pus students…he is going to use these dollars to en-ergize his team and make initiatives and a message to the off campus students. I think that’s great,” Hartnett said.

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


Workers are seen ontop of the Grove apartments construction site overlooking horsetooth rock Monday afternoon. Construction of the recent Grove apartments has brought questions up on the location and funding of the apartments.

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emphasized, with the hope that the individual will become a “productive, self-suffi cient citizen of Fort Collins.”

“The idea behind it is as soon as you walk in the door, we help you develop a plan to walk out the door and never return,” Carmack said.

The shelter serves an average of 75 meals a day with about 55 people stay-ing overnight. This is about half of the beds available in Fort Collins for the homeless

population, with Catholic Charities providing the oth-er half.

There hasn’t been much collaboration between the two shelters in the past, but that’s going to change, according to Carmack and Glen Good, Catholic Chari-ties regional director of Lar-imer County.

“We certainly do support them,” Good said. “Catho-lic Charities has a long time partnership with Denver Rescue Mission and we’re anxious to building that same partnership here in

Fort Collins.”Both Carmack and Meuli

said CSU students are al-ways welcome to volunteer at the shelter.

“I really believe that every CSU student has within them a heart for the hurting and if you put it in front of them they’ll do whatever they can do to help,” Carmack said. “You’re never more alive when you give versus when you take.”

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of gover-nors came to Washington on Tuesday to express con-cern to the White House and members of Congress about the potential consequences to state budgets in the fiscal cliff negotiations.

The governors are wor-ried both about the possibil-ity a deal may not be reached by year’s end and also that a final accord might rely on cuts to programs states are counting on to keep their own budgets balanced.

While the focus in Wash-ington is on the impasse between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans on the fate of George W. Bush-era tax rates for the well-off, governors are warily tracking discus-sions about spending cuts as many are set to present their own budget proposals for the new year.

“We don’t need cuts on the federal level that merely require tax increases on the state level,” Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat, told reporters outside the White House.

A new report from Har-vard’s Institute of Politics, the University of Pennsyl-vania’s Fels Institute of Gov-ernment and the American Education Foundation not-ed that grants to states make

up 40 percent of discretion-ary spending in the federal budget, and that state block grants “will be a prime tar-get” for national cuts.

The state leaders, three Republicans and three Dem-ocrats, said they came not to support any particular party’s plans but to offer their perspective on the de-cisions lawmakers face, and to urge a quick resolution that would end uncertain-ty that has the potential to hurt states and the national economy.

“It has a dramatic impact on our budgets at a very dif-ficult time for us,” said Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, a Repub-lican. “It’s almost like we have to prepare one budget if they solve it and one bud-get if they don’t solve it. And so states really understand the serious of this issue and the impact it’s going to have on our own budgets and our own economy.”

Herbert said that the states were willing to “do more with less,” acknowl-edging that some funding cuts are inevitable in any deal. But in a familiar re-quest on the part of state executives, the governors wanted greater flexibility in spending federal dollars that still come, a request that Herbert said Obama was receptive to in their meeting.

Obama was joined by Treasury Secretary Tim-

othy Geithner and Vice President Joe Biden in the meeting with the executive committee of the Nation-al Governors Association. Biden was tapped to be a liaison with the governors during the fiscal cliff talks,

a familiar role for the man who oversaw the imple-mentation of the stimulus bill passed in 2009.

One day after Republi-cans offered a counterpro-posal that the White House swiftly dismissed, Obama

offered no indication of how talks were going.

“I know that the presi-dent certainly wants a deal,” said Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, a Democrat and the chair of the NGA. “He didn’t try to handicap it for us, but

he made it very clear that he’s going to work as hard as he possibly can (to get one).”

The governors were set to head to Capitol Hill later Tuesday to meet with Speak-er John Boehner and other legislative leaders.

A bipartisan delegation of governors, including, from left, Gary Herbert (R-UT), Mary Fallin (R-OK), Jack Markell (D-DE), and Scott Walker (R-WI), speak to the media outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, after meeting with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the actions needed to keep our economy growing and find a balanced approach to reduce our deficit.

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Governors meet with Obama, Congress members on fiscal cliff

By DAVID LIGHTMANand LESLEY CLARKThe McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — Trying to predict the outcome of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is like trying to predict the fi-nal standings for your favor-ite teams when the season’s only half over.

There are at least four general scenarios for avoiding tax increases and automatic spending cuts at the start of next month: No deal, a big deal, an agreement to make changes in stages over the next few months and a Dem-ocratic-led effort to maintain temporary tax cuts for every-one but the top earners.

The most likely outcome is the multistage agreement, phasing in different pieces over several months, an idea that President Barack Obama praised Tuesday. Second on the maybe list is no deal.

A big accord and the Democratic plan are long shots at best. The history of big deals in recent times is varied. Over the last 30 years, the two sides have crafted

historic agreements on So-cial Security, budget limits and overhauling the tax code.

In the summer of 2011, Obama and Republicans en-gaged in tortured, lengthy negotiations over reducing the budget deficit, winding up agreeing to $900 billion in cuts from anticipated spend-ing over 10 years. But they couldn’t agree on how to go further, triggering a series of $109 billion in automatic re-ductions that will go into ef-fect Jan. 2 unless a new agree-ment is reached.

The prospects for several possible outcomes:

Multistage dealAll sides mention this one,

and it seems to be attainable. Republicans in the House of Representatives talked this week about agreeing to a framework, perhaps enough spending and tax cuts to avoid the January cliff, coupled with promises — written into law — to make structural changes to the tax code and Medicare sometime next year.

Congressional Demo-crats have criticized the plan

for a lack of specifics, but Obama seemingly endorsed the idea Tuesday, saying it was unlikely that he and Congress would be able to overhaul taxes and entitle-ment programs in the few weeks that remain.

Instead, he suggested as a model former President Ron-ald Reagan’s tax overhaul in 1986, which he said took 18 months to develop. He sug-gested letting tax rates on the top earners increase, then tack-ling a tax overhaul and chang-es to entitlement programs sometime next year. “That’s the framework that we’re operat-ing on,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

No dealTaxes would rise across

the board as income tax

rates revert to pre-George W. Bush-era levels.

A lot of lawmakers think that no deal is a real possi-bility. “We’re standing on the edge,” said Sen. Lindsey Gra-ham, R-S.C.

And Democrats, their thinking goes, won the pres-idency with Obama cam-paigning on a pledge to raise income taxes only for the top earners, so why give in? They’d try their chances af-ter Jan. 1, with more Dem-ocratic members joining a new Congress.

The nonpartisan Con-gressional Budget Office says that scenario might trim half a percentage point off economic growth in the first half of next year. The unemployment rate, which was 7.9 percent in October,

might rise to 9.1 percent, which could spark another recession.

A big dealWhite House and con-

gressional leaders continue to offer hope — usually pri-vately — that they can reach a grand bargain not only to get over the cliff but also to begin chipping away at the federal deficit with structur-al changes that eluded them last year.

Getting to that point in the next few weeks is doubtful, if only because big things such as overhaul-ing the tax code or revamp-ing Medicare aren’t going to be decided — let alone clear Congress — before the lame-duck session ends in about a month.

Taxing top earnersThis is the most unlikely

scenario, but it also isn’t out of the question. The Senate passed legislation in July to continue the income tax cuts for everyone except the top earners. It’s gone nowhere in the Republi-

can-dominated House.House Democrats began

an effort Tuesday to force the measure to the floor. Their “discharge petition” needs 218 signatures. The House has 192 Democrats, so it would need considerable Republican support.

While that’s unlikely — such petitions rarely succeed because they’re seen as chal-lenges to a long-entrenched process — Democrats are hammering Republicans as tacitly endorsing higher taxes by not signing the petition.

“House Republican leaders are holding the middle class hostage to protect millionaires,” said Rep. Steve Israel of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Congressio-nal Campaign Committee. About all that anyone can agree on so far is that talks need to continue — and out of the public eye.

“We’ve wasted an enor-mous amount of time here sparring back and forth in public,” said Senate Repub-lican leader Mitch McCon-nell of Kentucky.

Budget crisis scenarios: No deal, big deal, slow deal, rich deal“House Republican leaders are

holding the middle class hostage to protect millionaires.”

Steve Israel | chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee


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By KYLE GRABOWSKIThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

2012 will be remembered as a year of growth and over-coming adversity for the CSU volleyball team.

CSU finished the year 21-8 after losing to Purdue in the first round of the NCAA tournament, which was the Rams’ first loss in the tour-nament’s opening round since 2006.

“It’s about your body of work and they had a good one,” CSU coach Tom Hil-bert said. “We have to re-member that we got beat by a team that is one of the top 20 programs in the country and plays in the best confer-ence in the country. People are going to remember the outcome of that match was a loss, but the outcome of the season was not a loss.”

The Rams struggled early on the road and in confer-ence, but rallied at the end to win their fourth consecutive Mountain West champion-ship and clinch the program’s 18th straight NCAA tourna-ment berth.

It was the fourth con-secutive conference title for seniors Dana Cranston, Izzy Gaulia, Breion Paige and Me-gan Plourde, who ended their careers with a .793 winning percentage and a Sweet 16 trip in 2009.

Three of those road loss-es came consecutively in the team’s second tournament

in Wichita, Kan. and CSU lost its first two conference road games.

The Rams struggled with allowing extended point runs in those matches due to mental lapses and bad rota-tions, but gained a greater fo-cus and calm in matches that allowed them to overcome those issues.

“Putting ourselves in that situation where the rest of the year was an uphill climb forced us to improve,” Cran-ston said. “I think that helped us continue to get better throughout the whole year whereas in previous years we’d plateau or let slip.”

Freshmen Dri Culbert and Jaime Colaizzi helped stabilize the lineup with their maturity and high volleyball IQs. Colaizzi started every game during the season while Culbert entered the starting lineup during the tourna-ment in WIchita.

“I expected Jaime to make a contribution right off the bat, we really needed that spot. Dri was kind of a surprise, she allowed us to be more functional as a team because she could do so many different things well,” Hilbert said.

The Rams faced heavy resistance from San Diego State all year for the confer-ence championship, as the Aztecs finished the year with an identical 13-3 conference record.

CSU needed to win its

last eight matches in order to claim the championship, which it clinched on senior night with a 3-1 win against Fresno State.

It was a different experi-ence for the Rams, who in the last few years built an early lead and clinched the title in advance of the final game.

“We didn’t win every game easily and we lost to people that we shouldn’t have,” senior middle blocker Breion Paige said. “It shows you all of the things that we’ve overcome.”

That’s what Hilbert will remember from the 2012 season — not the 3-0 sweep to Purdue at the end, but the development of his team and what it meant for his seniors.

“It was a great journey for those four kids. They’re great players, they’re great people and they’re good friends of mine,” Hilbert said. “That’s what I’m going to remember the most is what it was like for those four, because they were the signature of this year.”

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

Early stumbles followed by late surge in 2012 season

Record: 21-8 (13-3 MW) 2012 Mountain West champi-

ons (4th straight) 18th consecutive NCAA

tournament 4 members of All-Mountain

West team

SEASON AT A GLANCE

Senior outside hitter Dana Cranston and redshirt junior MIchelle Smith receive the ball against Northern Colora-do. CSU finished the 2012 season 21-8 and won a 4th straight Mountain West title.

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VOLLEYBALL



By QUENTIN SICKAFOOSEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

David and Goliath. The Tortoise and the Hare. The Little Engine that Could. If these childhood stories have taught us anything, it’s to never rule out the underdog in any circumstance.

The CSU women’s bas-ketball hopes to follow in their footsteps as they continue their current win-less road trip in Boulder on Wednesday against the Buffaloes who are currently 6-0.

As both Fort Collins and Boulder residents know, the game means more than just coming away with a win or loss.

“Both schools have a lot of Colorado players on their rosters; we have three seniors that have done a fantastic job helping every-body else understand what it means to play Colorado State, and how important it is,” CU-Boulder head coach Linda Lappe said. “Hopeful-ly it’s a legacy that will live on when those three leave.”

Both teams have play-ers that will see game time Wednesday without expe-riencing a CU-CSU rivalry before, including freshman guard Taylor Varsho, who has been starting for the Rams all season.

Varsho has been relying on her teammates to paint the CU-CSU picture for her.

“They always say that (CU guard) Chucky (Jeffery) is a great player, and proba-bly going to the WNBA next year. You just have to treat her as a regular player and guard her the best you can,” she said. “She is going to get some shots here and there, but we can take some of that away with the defense we’re playing.”

Jeffery leads the Buffa-loes in assists, steals and re-bounds. She is also second on the team in scoring, aver-aging 11.8 points per game.

The Rams will enter Wednesday’s game riding on three consecutive losses, facing a team that has yet to lose a single game this sea-son.

“You can’t make it a big-ger deal than it is; it’s just

another game,” junior for-ward Sam Martin said. “We just have to go out there and prove ourselves. We haven’t played that well these last few games, and Wednesday is another chance we get to try.”

CSU is faced with its big-gest task of the year with the possibility of having to do it without one of its star players.

Senior forward Meghan Heimstra is questionable for

Wednesday after leaving the game at Bowling Green on Saturday with a head injury.

“Obviously Meghan is a big player for us,” Martin said. “But you have to do the best with what youve got. We have to go out there and do what we can and get the win for the CU game.”

Regardless of the cir-cumstances on each side, both teams seem to be eager

for the 5:50 p.m. tip-off in the Coors Events Center.

“We’re excited for the game, it’s a big rivalry game for both schools that always brings an exciting atmo-sphere,” Lappe said. “We’re going to be prepared, I know they’re going to be prepared, it’s going to be a great time for fans, players and coach-ing staffs.”

Women’s basketball Beat

Reporter Quentin Sickafoose can be reached at [email protected].

Head Coach Ryun Williams instructing Freshman guard Caitlin Duffy (33) at practice in Moby Arena on Tuesday. The Rams prepare to take on Colorado tomorrow at Boulder.AUSTIN SIMPSON | COLLEGIAN

Who: CU-BoulderWhere: Coors Events CenterWhen: 5:50 p.m.Coverage: Radio – 760 AM/

Streaming online at www.pac12.com/live/cubuffs.aspx

THE GAME

Rams looking to give CU-Boulder first lossWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

“We’re excited for the game, it’s a big rivalry game for both schools that always brings an exciting atmosphere.”Linda Lappe | CU-Boulder head coach

The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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