The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Wednesday, January 30, 2013

COLLEGIAN STAFF REPORT

Today, the Lory Student Center Theater will host Wayne Pacelle, the president and CEO of the Humane So-ciety of the United States (HSUS). The free event starts at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6 p.m.

The Humane Society is an establishment for those adopting animals or looking for animal care. Offi cially, it is the largest animal protection organization in the U.S. Ser-vices that includes: emergency response, rehabilitation cen-ters, sanctuaries, campaigns to reform industry and more.

Pacelle will speak on the topic of animal welfare around the nation, specifi cally farm animal welfare. He will also be available to sign copies of his new book after the event.

According to Holly Tarry, the Colorado director of the HSUS, Pacelle and the HSUS’s goal is to support an economy that is more humane to animals.

Pacelle’s speech is rel-evant to current initiatives in Colorado, Tarry said.

Since 2005, Pacelle and the

HSUS have worked toward the passage of more than 500 laws to protect animals. Pacelle has campaigned against laws hostile to animal well-being in California, Oregon, Arizona and Oklahoma.

The HSUS has earned many honors throughout Pacelle’s presidency, including a four-star ranking –– the best possible –– from “Charity Navi-gator,” America’s largest inde-pendent charity evaluator. The HSUS has also been named one of the top ten most fi scally responsible charities by “Worth Magazine” and has a top ten ranking as a nonprofi t brand.

“One of the biggest issues in the United States is animal wel-fare,” said CSU professor Ber-nard Rollin, a friend of Pacelle’s and an animal rights advocate and ethicist. “ ... It is important that students be knowledge-able about both sides to make educated decisions.”

According to Tarry, it is thanks to Rollin’s personal invite that Pacelle is speaking tonight.

Collegian Writer Mariah Wenzel can be reached at [email protected].

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Winter has once again reared its ugly head and gi� ed us with a nasty cold front. Snow, freezing temperatures, bitter blow-ing winds and hellish black ice all make it near impossible to drag yourself out of bed each morning. If you’re hop-ing for a snow day at CSU, don’t hold your breath, the only one you’ll get is one of your own making.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 121 | No. 91

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Sleep in No i-clickers, quizzes or class discussions can reach you un-der your warm

covers.

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NEWS | PAGE 6

OPINIONS | PAGE 4

A job that is ‘truly never done’

ASCSU

Student presence non-existentMayor Karen Weitkunat delivers the State of the City Address at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Tuesday evening to a captive audience. The Ad-dress had a successful turnout with many smiling faces.

AUSTIN SIMPSON | COLLEGIAN

Dwight Smith (33) goes up

for a dunk against As-

sistant Head Coach Leon-ard Perry at

practice. The Rams will

be playing against Boise State in Moby

Arena at 7 p.m. tonight.


Sustaining something specialMEN’S BASKETBALL

Hosting the head of the Humane Society

By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Think back to over a year ago.

Nov. 19, 2011. Remember the date?

Maybe it holds some mean-ing for you, maybe not. For CSU men’s basketball it does.

Nov. 19, 2011 marks the last time the Rams lost a home basketball game. Southern Mississippi, coached at the time by current CSU coach Larry Eustachy, drubbed CSU 79-58.

Some kind of irony.Tonight CSU (16-4, 3-2

MW) welcomes Boise State (14-5, 2-3 MW) to Moby

See BBALL on Page 8

By SKYLER LEONARDThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

For the president of the

Associated Students of CSU, Regina Martel, accomplishing all that her administration set out to do a year ago while cam-paigning is a hard challenge.

“It’s hard to say for sure where I think that we will be because there are so many moving parts,” Martel wrote in an email to the Collegian.

Regardless of where they end up, Martel does have a variety of goals she believes ASCSU has accomplished so far. One of these goals is more student representation.

“We wanted to make sure that students were represented at all levels of the university. We started accomplishing that by fi lling Senate seats,” Martel wrote. “This lead to a great con-versation about how to bolster attendance and participation in college councils.”

“We have been fi lling fac-ulty council committees with students as well as other com-mittees around campus look-ing for the best student rep-resentation that we could,” Martel continued.

Andrew Olson, speaker pro tempore for ASCSU Sen-ate, said some senators want to play a more active role in the community, echoing the issue of student representation.

“Some senators have ex-pressed that the required offi ce hours that are in their job de-scription would be better

See ASCSU on Page 3

Senate re� ects on accomplishments, shortfalls so far

“It’s just what this team does. We play well here.”Dorian Green | senior guard

By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Approximately 200 community members and what appeared to be zero CSU students attended the State of the City gala last night at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery at 408 Mason Ct.

The crowd snacked on hors d’oeuvres and milled about before Mayor Karen Weitkunat and City Manager Darin Atteberry took the stage to commemorate the 140th an-niversary of the city of Fort Collins’ incorporation.

“I couldn’t help but feeling this eve-ning, it’s like the Grammys or Oscars, being up here on the stage tonight,” joked Weitkunat.

Weitkunat and Atteberry took turns talking about the city’s past and what’s in store for the future.

The importance of investing in infrastructure to ensure future gen-erations have a high quality of life was one of the subjects Atteberry dis-cussed.

“You may not often think about how infrastructure is the future...but quality transportation and reliable utilities are a foundation and with-

out that backbone it’s not possible,” he said.

A history on the the revival of Old Town, another one showing the city’s infrastructure and a video detailing the parks, bike trails and Poudre River were a few of the clips shown.

CSU had a few minutes of repre-sentation when Amy Parsons, the vice president of operations at the univer-sity, spoke in one of the videos about CSU’s relationship to the city of Fort Collins.

As for the future, Atteberry said

See STATE on Page 3

Mayor Weitkunat discusses FoCo’s future during State of the City Address

Who: Boise State vs. CSU What: Men’s Basketball Where: Moby Arena When: Tonight, 7 p.m.

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STAYING UNDER CONTROLCSU HAS SAFETY PLANS IN PLACE

KEEPING AN EYE ON STUDENT GOVERNMENT

RAMMIN’ THE Women’s basketball squares off against Boise state

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Best Pizza in Northern Colorado

The Great Colorado Pie Fight took place this past Sat-urday in Fort Collins. Eight local pizzerias including Piz-za Casbah, Marco’s Pizza and Bros Pizzeria participated in the contest. By popular vote through local residents, Fal-bo Bros Pizzeria was deemed the big cheese of the event. Along with the title of Best Pizza in Northern Colorado, Falbo Bros Pizzeria will be receiving a $5,000 schedule of radio spots and a $1,000 digital advertising package with K99.

CSU budget hearing open to public

Today there will be a CSU budget hearing for the 2014 fiscal year. This event will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Cherokee Park Ballroom located in the Lory Student Center and is open to the general public.

NASA awards CSU professor coveted grant

Stephen Leisz, assis-tant professor of geography at CSU, has been awarded $298,000 for the Early Ca-reer Scientist Grant funded through NASA’s Land Cover/Land Use Change Program. Leisz will be studying road construction and improve-ment in central Vietnam,

southern Laos and eastern Thailand as it relates to the livelihood of people.

CSU Athletic Department looking for student volunteers

There’s an unseen force at work within the athletic program critical to its daily operation.

Student volunteers, known as the Golden Rams, are offered a chance to help out their teams by donating their time to perform the hun-dreds of various jobs necessary for the program to function.

A meeting will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the McGraw Athletic Center located on the first floor to find out what types of positions are avail-able. Volunteers not only get a chance to directly help out their school’s athletic program, but an experience for their resumes and even a chance to turn volunteer work into a paid position, ac-cording to Director of Foot-ball Operations Tom Ehlers.

Types of work avail-able range from helping set up banquets, to liaising between the program and Greek life and the colleges at CSU. Anyone who thinks they have a skill or a strong desire to help out is encour-aged to attend the informa-tional meeting.

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Fort Collins resident Sung Kim takes pictures of the nature by the Horsetooth Reservoir. Even though the reservoir is frozen over, there are still a lot of opportunities to enjoy the nature as long as you keep warm.

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utilized going to community events or school sanctioned events or anything of that nature,” Olson wrote in an email to the Collegian.

Community involve-ment is an area that Martel finds ASCSU could still be working on.

“This is a job that is truly never done. We can definite-ly do a better job in the com-ing semester getting to more residence halls, student or-ganizations, Greek Life and everything in between,” Martel wrote.

During her term as pres-ident, Martel said that the things they don’t plan for during a campaign can end up being the most striking.

“Every year in ASC-SU is different and there are things that are put on your agenda just by virtue of what is going on at the national or state level and at the university,” Martel wrote. “I think something that really affected us at the end of the semester after the tragedy at Sandy Hook, there were conver-sations regarding gun con-trol on college campuses. I did not expect to talk about that during our term but we were called to give feed-back and input at the na-tional level.”

“We also did not expect to write and push legisla-tion at the state level,” Mar-tel wrote. “We were able to work with our lobbyist and leadership in the state house and Senate and get a great bill started.”

For Senate, some of the biggest accomplishments, according to Olson, were three bills it passed.

“I would say that three bills come to mind and that would be the two bills that were brought to the Senate by the BSOF for the Pow-Wow put on by the Native American Cultural Center and the Amplified concert put on by the Black African American Cultural Center,” Olson wrote.

Olson wrote that there was also a resolution that the ASCSU governmental affairs director wrote that endorsed a tax break for textbooks.

“This resolution was ASCSU’s way of encourag-ing members of the 2013 Colorado General Assembly to explore such legislative action addressing the finan-cial strain of the textbooks through means of a tax break for textbooks,” Olson wrote.

There are still many things that Martel and all of ASCSU would like to accom-plish this semester, from looking at a long-term plan for RamRide, to trying to have a different approach to involvement with student fees and the university bud-get.

Martel is unsure where ASCSU will end up at the end of her term as president, but she is still hopeful.

“Again, it is kind of hard to say what will happen in the next few months...but I think that we have a great team in all three branches of ASCSU that truly are work-ing toward the betterment of students,” Martel wrote. “And with this great group of students working together I really think that it will be a productive semester.”

ASCSU Beat Report-er Skyler Leonard can be reached at [email protected].

ASCSU | Promises still to be kept

StAte | Message lacking dollar figuresContinued from Page 1

projects in the coming years need to “end well.” These included Woodward at the Link-N-Greens, the Foot-hills Mall, the Mason Corri-dor and Max Transit system.

Northern Colorado res-ident Zekeial Shaw said he would have liked to have seen more detailed infor-mation about the budget and what city council has

planned for the future.“It was relatively general

as far as information,” Ze-keial said. “I wanted more dollars and cents from the presentation.”

Fort Collins resident Hayley Sampson agreed. While she found the evening “inspirational,” Sampson was also expecting more in-formation about the budget and what the future may bring as far as the economy.

“I wish it was more sub-stantive as far as budget policy and specifics as to what is going to be accom-plished in the next year,” Sampson said.

While no CSU students appeared to be in atten-dance last night, Weitkunat said afterward that she felt students are still involved in the political process in town when there’s issues being addressed that directly af-

fect the student population.She mentioned the Stu-

dent Housing Action Plan, transportation issues and neighborhood concerns about parties or noise reg-ulations that generally draw students.

“Yes,” Weitkunat said, “Of course we see students in council meetings.”

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

“We also did not expect to write and push legislation at the

state level.”Regina Martel | ASCSU president

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The job of the Associated Students of CSU is one that “is never truly done,” according to President Regina Martel. Since we’re paying her $9,000 to do that job, however, we sure hope it gets done.

Of the 15 core campaign promises made by ASCSU, seven have been met as of October 2012. Seven out of 15 kept promises is not a bad start, but as this semes-ter comes into full swing, the stu-dent body will be watching to see how many more of the remaining — and considerably more lofty — goals will be completed.

The promises already met by ASCSU were also fairly straight-forward as far as policy was concerned. Creating a student advisory committee on the

on-campus stadium, keeping blue books free and increasing outreach to residence halls and student organizations were all simple enough; some of them were even imported from the

previous administration.It’s all well and good for ASC-

SU to be keeping as many prom-ises as they are (considering the last administration kept an out-standing 15 out of 44 promises in October 2012), but we do not

elect a student government to do the simple tasks.

We’re still waiting to reap the benefits of the wonderful ideas this administration has pro-posed and not yet accomplished. Improving campus Wi-Fi, setting up a better RamRide dispatch system and helping enforce the university’s environmentally friendly mentality are good pri-orities. That’s why we chose you as our elected officials.

But we also want to see these completed. Bellyaching about the difficulty of the campaign promises neither keeps them, nor earns the sympathy of the student body.

You’ve got a lot of work to do, ASCSU, and the student body is watching.

The New York Times put out another major article this week on a foreign government asking Twitter for help in identifying some of its posters so they could be prosecuted in French courts.

The accused had posted racist tweets, which violated a French law against racist speech. At the same time, Twitter has pointed out that under its own rules it does not divulge information on its posters. It is one of many cases that bring up the question of how foreign laws can be enforced

on US companies.Since the US has no laws that restrict racist speech

(excluding hate speech), it technically does not violate American law and the case would have no bearing on US soil. But this would not be the first time Twitter has done something to please foreign governments if they choose.

The Internet itself has been a mess for lawmakers worldwide, as it does not follow the same rules that nor-mally apply. The lines on what is said online are blurry and the law has yet to catch up.

The real problem comes down to the fact that ano-nymity is one of the main pulls of the Internet. Regard-less of what it is used for, anonymous communication is part of what makes the Internet great. It allows you to post opinions, no matter how inflammatory, without fear of reprisal. It acts as a mode of healthy civil disobedience that would otherwise not be available, in both the US and many places worldwide.

I always try to avoid being the guy in the basement with a tin foil hat, but the government is making slow and steady progress into people’s privacy. It is starting to make me wonder when it will stop.

Many Internet companies are being forced to crack down on self-defeating evils. Germany recently request-ed that Twitter block access to a neo-Nazi group’s tweets in Germany, which Twitter agreed to do, but the question that came to mind is: why bother? It is a vocal minori-ty of people with no real power other than spouting obscure opinions that no one honestly cares about. The case itself probably brought them more publicity than their Twitter postings ever could have.

These are things that can easily be ignored on the site as well. Every major Internet site has some mode by which you can filter your own content. If you do not want to deal with people having a different or inflamma-tory opinion, you never have to.

The other major problem is that many governments are attempting to make laws that would affect the Internet with little to no knowledge of what they are saying. Last May, the New York State Assembly attempted to pass a bill that would require web administrators, if requested, to require anony-mous commentators to identify themselves with their legal name and address or have their comments removed.

Now, if you have been on the Internet for more than a day, you know that this law is not only impossible to carry out, but outright ridiculous.

However, what the bill made clear is that we need to start looking at how we are going to regulate Internet access. It is time to start looking at how and why the Internet is being targeted and what we can do to stop certain regulation before it starts violating our basic rights to have and voice an opinion.

One of the most recent reports of government at-tempts to delve into the Internet’s confines came (again) from the New York Times. The Times reported that the government has been requesting more and more access to private emails, specifically from Google. According to the article, the government has made 70 percent more requests in the last three years for access to private emails.

Normally, one would think that the government would have to go through some sort of process to gain access to these emails. However, because the last laws regarding this were written in the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the government can view any emails that are older than 180 years old. It is this kind of recent action by the government that makes the way they are approaching the Internet highly suspect, if not outright unethical.

I am not here to tell you that I am going to weep for the loss of neo-Nazi groups or racism on the Internet, but I am going to tell you that in its current state, our government is not the body to be telling us what should and should not be acceptable.

Brian Fosdick is a junior journalism major. His columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

This semester, one of ASCSU President Regina Martel's stated goals is to do a better job reaching out to the community and increasing aware-ness about her organization. With a resolution passed on Jan. 23, a large segment of the Fort

Collins community will undoubtedly become more familiar with ASCSU should their recommendation take hold and CSU faculty and staff denied salary increases for the upcoming year.

On Wednesday, ASCSU’s tuition task force is meeting with Tony Frank to present their stance on the budget, which will focus upon RES 4206, a rec-ommendation that the proposed 9 per-cent increase in tuition be decreased to an amount that would not include an increase in employee salaries.

ASCSU should be commended for taking the initiative to create a task force to try to combat continued increases in tuition to attend CSU, especially since many of the organi-zation’s members are working hard on students’ behalf for zero pay.

Unfortunately, when the task force looked at the proposed budget, the only cost-cutting measure they were able to find was to eliminate the 3 percent increase in CSU faculty and staff salaries.

I disagree with their conclusion and oppose 4206.

If the rest of the budget numbers are set in stone, as ASCSU has found,

then I believe it’s imperative that we step up and assume the full 9 per-cent tuition hike rather than let our faculty, staff and fellow community members become the unintended scapegoats of our representatives’ penny pinching.

3 percent may seem like a triv-ial raise for faculty and staff, but in these years of increasing prices and a stagnant economy, a few more dollars per paycheck can make a world of difference for both the purse and the heart of those who make this campus great.

This fact is only magnified when you take into consideration that prior to the mandatory increase for state employees this year, our faculty and staff had not really received any sort of salary increase for three years preced-ing that — so I am willing to wager even a minimal pay raise would be a huge relief.

But while the the salary increase ASCSU is opposing seems relatively minute, the impact it would have on decreasing the tuition hike is even smaller — less than 2 percent.

So we’re cutting incentives for great staff to stay and keep working hard, and competitively attracting top-notch faculty, and still going to be subjected to a tuition hike of about 7.3 percent? It hardly seems worth it.

Although I am appreciative of our representatives’ efforts to keep our costs low and try to fulfill our land-grant mission of keeping higher edu-cation affordable, this resolution was the wrong place to take a stand.

When listening to plans by ASCSU to put new tablets into RamRide cars,

and remembering back to when our newly elected president and vice president immediately passed legis-lation increasing their salaries, you’ve got to ask yourself, are staff and faculty wages the best area to display fiscal conservatism?

Is a 3 percent increase all that much to ask, especially when Pres-ident Martel just recently awarded herself a $750 raise — over a 9 percent increase — which brought her salary for 2012-2013 to $9,000.

State revenue has decreased since 2007, which hollowed out our ability for a time to pay even the most meager salary increases. This year, however, we have had a decrease in unemploy-ment and we have received more state revenue, with every indication that the worst of the recession is behind us.

Now is not the time to pull back, to yank the purse strings and poten-tially strangle the progress of our local economy. CSU is the epicenter of Fort Collins and employs more people than any other organization in Larimer County.

It will mean that our educations will be moderately more expensive, but with the exclusion of salary increases we really won’t be saving hardly any money at all.

I am willing to go a few more dollars in debt to better my communi-ty. In the end, isn’t that what going to college is all about?

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

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“You’ve got a lot of work to do, ASCSU,

and the student body is watching.”

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

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Do you think women should be serving in combat positions?

41% Sure, if they pass the test.

32% No. 27% Yes.

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The internet is becoming less anonymous

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“Our government is not the body to be telling us what should and

should not be acceptable.”


By Carrie MoBleyThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

In light of the recent Newtown shooting and the Aurora shooting in July 2012, gun violence and gun con-trol laws are on legislators’ minds.

One local government official took to his Facebook page to report his stance on gun control.

According to the Col-oradoan, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith wrote a post on his Facebook page last week saying he would not allow the constitutional rights of residents in Lar-imer County to be violated. Smith wrote that he con-

tends that will happen if a federal law is passed regu-lating background checks in person-to-person gun sales.

In his post, Smith wrote the only way this system will work is to register every fire-arm in existence. He then went on to write that anyone who refuses will be consid-ered a criminal by the gov-ernment.

“That same govern-ment,” Smith wrote, “which all too often has failed to enforce the current laws against criminal predators, will then start to discrimi-nately target and prosecute law-abiding Americans who are simply exercising their

constitutionally recognized right to keep and bear arms.”

Smith has since soft-ened his earlier statement, telling the media that he will not be the one to deter-mine the constitutionality of a law, nor will he simply ignore enforcement of it, but rather mount a lawsuit against it should it become law.

Recent shootings and comments like these have elevated fears about more shootings occurring within our own communities.

CSU has its own emer-gency system for reacting to such an attack, according to Chief Wendy Rich-Gold-schmidt of the CSU Police Department.

“There are many offices around campus that have emergency push buttons

that go directly into the 911 system, notifying CSUPD,” Rich-Goldschmidt said. “CSU safety experts contin-ually monitor new technolo-gies that can be put in place to assist with safety.”

Rich-Goldschmidt said during an emergency, the university would communi-cate with the campus com-munity using emergency email and text messages, as well as use safety tools available to many specific buildings –– such as locking down electronic key access in buildings with those sys-tems.

Although these precau-tions could help in the case of a gunman at the univer-sity, there are still ongoing debates about whether reg-ulating or banning certain guns might make precau-

tions less necessary. And while no law has

been passed yet, Bill Cates, store manager of Rocky Mountain Shooter Supply in Fort Collins, said that isn’t quelling local perceptions of such a law, or any other law attempting to regulate or ban guns.

“There is a lot of fear and anticipation about it,” Cates said. “People are panicking that their rights are going to be taken away and so they are buying more [guns].”

Cates estimated that sales at his store have in-creased at least 100 percent in recent months due to the discussion of various regula-tions of guns. Cates said his customers don’t see the pos-sibility of new legislation as a way to combat violence, but another means of govern-

ment control.“The people who come

into our store don’t see it as a protective measure,” Cates said. “They see it as regula-tion for law-abiding citizens instead of approaching the real issue, such as mental ill-ness or anything else.”

“Bans have been used in the past as a way to combat gun violence,” Cates said. “There were bans on guns like assault rifles and tacti-cal rifles a few years ago, but that was also the same time that Columbine occurred. So the local gun-owners are just kind of saying ‘Well, here we go again!’”

Smith could not be reached for an interview at the time of press.

City Beat Reporter Car-rie Mobley can be reached at [email protected].

Wildlife Biology major Sam Peterson browses through the shotgun collection at the Rocky Mountain Shooter Supply off of Mulberry Tuesday afternoon. The store reports an increase in gun sales since the recent Sandy Hook shootings.

Kevin Johansen | COLLEGIAN

local official up in arms about potential gun controlLarimer Sheriff Justin Smith says he will not enforce unconstituntional laws

“There is a lot of fear and anticipation about it. People are panicking that their rights are going to be taken away and so they are buying more [guns].”

Bill Cates | store manager of Rocky Mountain Shooter

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Arena, looking to extend its winning streak to 25 straight games - a program high and the fourth-best streak in all of Division I basketball.

“It’s just what this team does. We play well here,” senior guard Dorian Green said. “We understand the importance of winning at home. In this league, it’s tough to win on the road, so if you want to compete for a league title and try to get to the tournament you got to win at home.”

Defending Moby against the high caliber opponents in the Mountain West adds something extra special about what the Rams have achieved. No game is a gimme.

Boise State comes in as the conference’s highest scoring team at 76.7 points per game (29th nationally) thanks to shooting 47 per-cent from the field and a MW-leading 40 percent be-yond the arc.

“You got to contest shots and keep them in front of you,” senior forward Pierce Hornung said. “It always comes down to what we do and not what Boise does. If we get our game on the floor, we’ll be successful.”

The Broncos tallied im-pressive wins over then-No. 11 Creighton and Wyoming on the road, and took No. 19 New Mexico to overtime be-fore losing at home.

“Anytime you can go into Creighton and win, they can go into anywhere and win,” Eustachy said. “(Boise State) and UNLV are probably our

two toughest opponents so far.”

Boise State’s offense runs through its two outstanding sophomore guards, Derrick Marks and Anthony Drmic, who rank first (21.3) and third (18.6) in scoring during MW play. Eustachy comple-mented Marks especially, suggesting he was possibly an NBA quality player.

“They got a special guard in Marks, who really isn’t his deal to shoot the three, but his deal is to keep guys in foul trouble,” Eustachy said. “That’s a great concern of ours. ... They can both shoot, but one shoots it special. They kind of feed off each other. Marks, there’s not a better point guard in the league.”

It’s at the other end of the court where the Bron-cos struggle. Boise State has proven to be defensively vulnerable, giving up the seventh most points per game in the MW, potentially leading to an up-and-down, high scoring brand of bas-ketball.

The Rams are deter-mined to keep that from happening.

“For us it begins and ends with defensive re-bounding,” Green said. “If we can get stops and re-bound and limit their oppor-tunities, and then just be pa-tient offensively ... we’ll get what we want offensively. So it comes down to defensive rebounding. That’s what we talk about every day.”

Men’s Basketball Beat Reporter Cris Tiller can be reached at [email protected].

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President Barack Obama, following up on one of his campaign pledges from last fall, will unveil his plans for a comprehensive immigration overhaul Tuesday during a trip to Las Vegas.

According to the White House, Obama will intro-duce a plan that includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, which many Republicans oppose and liken to amnesty. The trip marks the first step to-ward fulfilling his promise to press for an immigration overhaul at the beginning of his second term.

In a meeting Friday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the president told lawmakers he planned to redouble efforts to work with Congress to fix a bro-ken immigration system.

Talk of overhauling im-migration has been building since Obama won re-elec-tion in November with large Latino support. Stung by the results, Republicans rushed to join Democrats back at the negotiating table. Immi-

gration, however, remains a very emotional issue in many parts of the country. Many Republicans oppose granting those who crossed the border illegally an oppor-tunity to become citizens.

Perspectives do appear to be changing, though.

A CNN/ORC poll re-leased Monday found that 53 percent of people sur-veyed said they wanted a plan that allowed illegal immigrants to become le-gal residents, with 43 per-cent saying the government should prioritize deporting undocumented immigrants.

At the White House briefing Friday, press secre-tary Jay Carney said Obama hoped that the “dynamic has changed” and was en-couraged by Republicans’ “willingness” to readdress the immigration issue.

He said the president would give details on what he called a blueprint of proposals that he’s been discussing over the past year. Those measures include securing the border, beefing up work-site enforce-ment and establishing a tem-porary worker program for lower-skilled, non-seasonal,

non-agricultural workers.“This is not a partisan or

ideological pursuit,” Carney said. “It’s the right thing to do for our economy, and he looks forward to speaking about it next week and to work with Republicans and Democrats to get it done.”

Obama touched on im-migration in his inaugural address Monday. He’s ex-pected to lay out his plans further in his State of the Union address Feb. 12.

As the president is push-ing his proposals, a bipar-tisan group of senators has been working behind closed doors on a compromise. One Senate aide said a proposal might be released as ear-ly as next week. The group has had several meetings with Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida, who is a potential 2016 presidential candidate, and his staff, according to a Republican Senate aide with knowledge of the conversa-tions, who requested ano-nymity to speak more freely about the issue.

Rubio suggested in in-terviews this winter intro-ducing legislation in pieces, which might make change

easier to get through Con-gress. Rubio’s plan would include a permanent-resi-dency provision for many of the estimated 11 million ille-gal immigrants living in the country, possibly leading to citizenship after some years.

Pressure to find a solu-tion also has come on the right from groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Baptist Convention, leading to great-er optimism that a bipartisan agreement can be reached.

“Progress on immi-gration reform this year is within Washington’s grasp,” said Ali Noorani, the execu-tive director of the National Immigration Forum, an ad-vocacy group.

In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday, former Mississippi Gov. Ha-ley Barbour (R) recalled that two previous presidents — George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan — had supported comprehensive immigra-tion restructuring. He cited employers’ needs for immi-grants not only in high-tech industries but in agriculture too, especially in states such as California.

obama: bipartisan immigration plan “It always comes down to what we do and not what Boise does. If we get our game on the floor, we’ll be successful.”

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A 1-5 road record should be enough to give the CSU women’s basketball team something to worry about when playing away from Moby Arena. However, the Rams hardly seem worried because they are about to enter territory they feel com-fortable in.

CSU travels to Boise State tonight, where last year they walked away from Taco Bell Arena with a 60-52 win.

“You have to win your home games, it’s begin-ning to be a big factor in the league,” Boise State coach Gordy Presnell said. “Obvi-ously they present a lot of problems for us because of what happened last year.”

Regardless of last year’s results, tonight’s game won’t be easy for either team. CSU is beginning to slip further down in the conference standings, while the Bron-cos are currently riding a fi ve home game winning streak.

None of these statis-tics are news to the Rams - they are fully aware of the the road that lies in front of them.

“We still don’t know ex-actly what to expect, besides that they are a really good team. We can’t overlook them at all,” senior forward Meghan Heimstra said. “(Lauren) Lenhardt is a real-ly good player that motivates everyone around her.”

Boise State has leaned on Lenhardt all season long. She currently leads the team on the offensive side of the ball.

She scores a Mountain West-leading 18.4 points per

conference game to go with 7.2 rebounds, both high-er than any Colorado State player.

While the Rams are fo-cused more on a single play-er, Boise State has its eye on the defensive zone that CSU plays, in fear that it may cause it some trouble.

“We’ll have a hard time with their 3-2 zone defense they put out. It will force us to play in a way we’re not used to,” Presnell said. “Ob-viously that has us very con-cerned.”

The Rams will have to fi nd their defensive groove because the Broncos are av-eraging 63.8 points per game this season, while only being able to put up 55.7 them-selves.

CSU enters tonight’s game with four losses out of their last fi ve.

“We need this win. We’ll have to do it by scoring the ball more consistently. We have our work cut out for us,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “We anticipate playing well tomorrow. Maybe get-ting on the road is what this team needs, it doesn’t matter where you play, as long as you come ready.”

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

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After more than 230 peo-ple were killed in a Brazilian nightclub fi re over the week-end, bars, clubs and enter-tainment venues through-out northeast Pennsylvania are reviewing their safety precautions and emergency procedures.

Although emergencies, especially fi res, are a con-cern, local facilities have a series of safeguards and pro-cedures in place that would minimize the risk of a large-scale fi re, directors and own-ers said.

John Cardoni, facility and technical director at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple, said ev-ery fl oor is fi re-sealed from its adjacent fl oors. Even gaps like pipe chaseways are "fi re-stopped and sealed," and have been since 2002, when the facility underwent a renovation fi nanced with grant money.

As the building is con-structed entirely of steel encased in concrete for fi re proofi ng, red clay tiles, lime-stone and slate, it does not make use of fl ammable in-sulation materials like those blamed with exacerbating the fi re in Brazil.

When the building was built in the 1930s, two eight-inch thick fi re curtains con-structed of steel frames wrapped in fi re-proof mate-rials were installed on either side of the stage in the audi-torium.

If there were a fi re on the stage, the 8,000-pound fi re curtain on the ballroom side and the 10,000-pound cur-tain on the stage side would lower from above the stage and seal it off, Mr. Cardoni said.

"The idea when this building was built, because most theater fi res started on stages because of special ef-fects, high-temperature light bulbs, canvassing drying up (was) if you can contain the fi re on stage you can protect the people," Mr. Cardoni

said.The air ducts in the

building also have heat and smoke detectors that would trigger mechanics that seal off any areas with smoke or exorbitant heat once they are detected. That signal also would trigger the facility's alarm system, which auto-matically alerts the city fi re department.

The building also is equipped with sprinklers,

several of which were added during the 2002 renovations to cover areas that had previ-ously not had the equipment.

In addition to annual building inspections per-formed for "insurances pur-poses and our own peace of mind," Mr. Cardoni said the building's staff is trained on fi re detection and preven-tion and is periodically up-dated.

The same precautions

are taken at entertainment facilities throughout the re-gion.

Ron Kamionka, own-er of the Hardware Bar, the Susquehanna Ale House and O'Sullivan's in downtown Wilkes-Barre and Mulligan's in Scranton, does not believe his clubs are vulnerable to a fi re like the Brazil inferno.

Mr. Kamionka said the industry took more mea-sures to prevent fi res after

the Station nightclub fi re in Rhode Island in 2003, the fourth-deadliest nightclub fi re in American history. The fi re killed 100 people and injured about 230 after the band Great White used pyrotechnics that ignited fl ammable sound insulation foam in the walls and ceil-ings surrounding the stage.

The ceilings in Mr. Kami-onka's clubs do not contain foam or other fl ammable

material and the bands and acts performing at his clubs do not use pyrotechnics, fl ares or anything fl amma-ble, he said. His clubs also have sprinkler systems and double the amount of exit doors required, he said. There are eight sets of dou-ble doors in the Hardware Bar and Susquehanna Ale House, four sets of doors in O'Sullivan's and 11 in Mulli-gan's in Scranton.

Two healthcare professionals wait as relatives identify the victims from the Kiss nightclub fi re in Santa Maria, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. According to the latest reports, at least 232 people died and 48 were injured in the fi re.

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