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We have now entered the “Hurricane of Negativity” phase of the campaign. Both candidates are going to be spending as much money as possible trying to bury the other in nastiness. Here are some of the biggest lies told in attack ads.

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Interracial DatingBlack African American Culture Center hosts “Real Talk”

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“� omas Je� erson is an Atheist”The 1800 election was a nasty one. Federalist John Adams claimed that his Demo-cratic-Republican challenger Thomas Jefferson was an atheist and an anarchist who supported incest. A 204 year precursor to the Tea Party attack ads!

“Andrew Jackson is: All of the Above”

Here is just a sample of the quality of the 1828 election: murder, alcoholism, cockfi ghting, slaving, cannibal-ism, bigamism and WHORING! 2012 is tame by comparison.

Biggest Lies in Negative Attack Ads

Happy Birthday,

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Collins High School transformed and celebrating its 4th year anniversary.

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By LIANNA SALVAThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

If the University Center for the Arts were a college student, it would be freshly graduated and in the mar-ket for a job.

That’s because this fall marks the fourth anniversary of the opening of the UCA, which houses 1,100 stu-dents daily and more than 100 faculty members for the music, theatre and dance departments.

Before the UCA was the UCA, though, it was the old Fort Collins High School.

Current FCHS Assistant Principal Joe Ahlbrandt, is a fourth generation graduate of the old high school and has fond memories as both a student and a football coach. Ahlbrandt grad-uated in 1982 and started teaching and coaching in 1994.

“One of the funniest memories when I was a student was when one

kid tried to get up to the tower and fell through the ceiling into the third fl oor,” he said. “I think going up to the tower, being there as a student in ‘79 through ‘82, was huge. When I was there as a coach, it wasn’t as big of a deal. The mystique was gone.”

The entrance to the tower has since been closed off, but graffi tied names of past students still remain.

While the building was still a high school, CSU performing arts majors were spread throughout campus for their classes and performances. Most of the performances were in the Lory Student Center Theatre with theater classes in Johnson Hall, dance in the General Services Building and music for the Artsin in what is now the TILT building.

“Not only does the UCA provide fi ve state-of-the-art performance spaces and classrooms, but allows the performing arts areas to collabo-rate and cross-train, both on-stage

and in the classroom,” said Jennifer Clary, UCA Director of Marketing.

Although the UCA builds a sense of community for the performing arts departments, the location poses a challenge for the rest of the CSU community.

“It takes longer for non-arts stu-dents to fi nd out about us because they don’t see the building every day,” Clary said.

The building was sold to CSU in 1995 and began renovations to be turned into a performing arts com-plex. Through increased student fees and large donations from The Grif-fi n Foundation and The Bohemian Foundation, the UCA was opened in the fall of 2008.

Griffi n Foundation President and Chairman of the Board, David Wood, expressed pride in the building as a past and present icon in the Fort Col-lins Community. The Foundation do-nated $2 million for the renovation of

the building, specifi cally the addition of the Griffi n Concert Hall.

“We were consulted in the plan-ning stages, but we were most inter-ested in the concert hall out of con-sideration that the acoustics were top notch,” Wood said. “The building for its present purpose is one of the best in the country.”

Clary promised a celebration next fall for the the UCA’s fi fth anni-versary. The faculty also have plans for expanding the University Art Mu-seum and the Avenir Museum of De-sign and Merchandising.

“The faculty, staff and students at the University Center for the Arts have accomplished a lot in the last fi ve years since the building was completed – it has gone by quickly and there is much to recognize and celebrate!” she said.

UCA Beat Reporter Lianna Salva can be reached at [email protected].

Negative political ads increase 60.9 percent from ‘08 election

Famous GLBT rights speaker comes to CSU

“So I see negative ads as sort of essential and inevitable, but I wish there was more balance between positive ads and negative ads.”

David Scott | (ecology graduate student)

By BAILEY CONSTASThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

N a t i o n a l l y - r e n o w n e d GLBTQ rights activist Zach Wahls will speak in the Lory Student Center Theater Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of national GLBT history month.

The event is sponsored by CSU’s GLBT Resource Center and ASAP.

“It’s a month to celebrate and educate the community through music, speakers, performances and dialogue,” said Jennifer Ni-val, program coordinator for diversity and social justice pro-gramming at Campus Activities.

Nival said that Wahls, the son of two mothers, is known for addressing the Iowa House Judiciary Committee when he was 19 years old, in a public hearing on a proposed con-stitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa.

Wahls is famous for saying, “the sexual orientation of my parents has had zero impact on the content of my charac-ter.”

After his address went viral

on YouTube, Wahls made ap-pearances on the “Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” the “Ellen Degeneres Show,” MSNBC and CBS.

“He will speak about his experience growing up with two lesbian mothers, why the struggle for GLBT rights is so important, and his activism work,” Nival said.

Wahls wrote a book titled “My Two Moms” released in April 2012. He is an environmental en-gineering student at the Univer-sity of Iowa and an Eagle Scout.

“He’s an Eagle Scout and he’s thinking about how the world can be more just and eq-uitable,” said Foula Dimopou-los, director of CSU’s GLBT Resource Center.

Dimopoulos thinks that we need more spaces that cultivate dialogue without assuming that we know something about someone’s lives.

“Zach and other people that we’ve brought to campus have the ability to bring people

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Zach Wahls takes center stage

By KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Political advertising crops up in the least – and most – expected places, and at this stage of the presidential elec-tion season, most people, like freshman McKinnley Witty, are simply tired of them.

“I think they’re annoying, I think that instead of focus-ing on what the other person’s doing wrong they should fo-cus on what they’re doing right,” Witty said. “...I don’t think that they’re that neces-sary. Personally I don’t want to hear the bad things about them, I want to hear the good things that they’re going to do.”

Negative advertising is nothing new in a presidential election, but the 2012 season’s ads from candidates and in-terest groups increased from the 2008 election, according to the Wesleyan Media Proj-

ect, which analyzed Kantar Media/CMAG data. By April 2008, 9.1 percent of ads put out by candidates and inter-est groups were negative, but in the 2012 election season so far, 70 percent have been negative.

As of Oct. 10, $262 million was spent on ads supporting Obama and $282 million went toward ads supporting Rom-ney. Of all the ads run, 83 per-cent of ads supporting Obama were negative and 90 percent of ads supporting Romney were negative, according to a Huffi ngton Post study.

Part of the increase is be-cause of the 2010 Supreme Court decision (Citizens’ United vs. the Federal Elec-tion Commission) that al-lowed corporations, unions and other organizations to use as much money as they want to run ads independent of a campaign, according to associate professor of politi-

cal science Sandra Davis. Like many voters, ecol-

ogy student David Scott fi nds it diffi cult to take negative ads seriously because of the prevalence of mud-slinging, but recognizes them as a nec-essary evil.

“You can only say so much about yourself and be effective. I feel like politicians also need to give you a reason not to vote for the other guy,” Scott said. “So I see negative ads as sort of essential and inevitable, but I wish there was more balance between positive ads and negative ads.”

Negative ads disillu-sion and alienate voters, but many groups creating them can reinvent themselves each election season, making it diffi cult to hold them ac-countable for inaccurate or misleading campaign ads,

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“Barry Goldwater Will Nuke

Kids!”President Johnson was not a subtle man. In the“Daisy” ad Johnson made the claim that if Barry Goldwater was elected, nukes would drop. The Daisy Ad has since gone down in history as the granddaddy of modern negative advertising lies.

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Retired police offi cer Howard ‘Cowboy’ Wooldridge holds up a politcal sign saying “Yes on 64” on top of his horse Tuesday morning on the corner of Prospect and College. Wooldrige is a police voice on Capitol Hill in opposition to drug prohibition.

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Community BriefsCans Around the Oval ends today

The campus community will assemble on Wednes-day at CSU’s Oval to collect thousands of pounds of food as part of CSU’s 26th annual Cans Around the Oval.

The event will be held

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., be-ginning with remarks from university president Tony Frank.

Oct. 17 marks the end of the university’s month-long food drive, which started on Sept. 10. In the past, Cans Around the Oval has collect-ed 66,900 pounds of food and

$34,038 in donations, accord-ing to a CSU news release.

CSU Prof: Dogs like Mozart, not Iron Maiden

Dogs in shelters quiver when they hear Iron Maid-

en blasting from speakers, but are soothed when the tune is changed to Mozart’s compositions, according to a study performed a CSU professor as reported by the Denver Post.

Lori Kogan, the pro-fessor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and

Biomedical Sciences who conducted the research, played 45 minutes of a certain type of music and recorded the animals’ re-actions every five min-utes.

According to the article, Kogan said she will contin-ue to study how veterinary

clinics can use music to help animals recovering from surgery.

The study can be found in the newest Journal of Vet-erinary Behavior.

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The economy and healthcare are typical election buzz words for all Americans, but some of the most controversial rhetoric at the forefront in the 2012 presi-dential race concerns women’s rights. In terms of work-place equality, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men make, and health-wise many women want access to reproductive and preventative care options.

“I am a woman, and I feel especially growing up in the American culture where we have a right to choose many things...why should we be put in the position to listen to someone tell us what we are allowed to choose?” said Erin Zock, a senior anthropology major.

Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected].

BACKGROUND

*Information provided by each candidate’s campaign offi ce and public records

WHAT THEY PROMISED*

“Indeed, we know we are better off when women are treated fairly and equally in every aspect of American life — whether it’s the salary you earn or the health decisions you make…We know that our challenges are eminently solvable. The question is whether together, we can muster the will — in our own lives, in our common institutions, in our politics — to bring about the changes we need,” Obama said at the Barnard College Commence-ment speech May 14, 2012.

End health insurance discriminationProtect a woman’s right to chooseWomen’s health care choices are

personal and should be made with the help of doctors, not politicians

“I want to speak to the women of Amer-ica who have dreams who begin business-es in their homes who begin businesses out in the marketplace who are working in various enterprises and companies, I want you to be successful…Our campaign is about making it easier for entrepreneurs, women and men, to start businesses, to grow businesses we will champion small business because we know that’s where our jobs come,” Romney said at an Ohio speech Aug. 25, 2012.

Restore the economy and get wom-en to work

Overturn Roe v. Wade and return power to determine abortion laws to the states

End federal funding for abortion ad-vocates like Planned Parenthood

WHAT THEY DID*

2009: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay ActAmended Civil Rights Act of 1964

so unfair pay complaints can be fi led within 180 days of a discriminatory paycheck

2010: Signed Affordable Care ActMany insurance plans fully cover

birth control, mammograms and can-cer screenings as part of preventative care

2003: Chose a female lieutenant governor and a female chief of staff2003: Eliminated Massachusetts’ Offi ce of Affi rmative Action

The offi ce placed civil rights offi cers in charge of monitoring the hiring of minorities, women and people with disabilities in executive agencies

Replaced with a state diversity of-fi ce with broad goals and guidelines

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according to Davis. Many disputed positions in po-litical ads will never be re-solved, and regulation is impossible because they are free speech protected by the First Amendment.

“It’s not a good situa-tion, but other than amend-ing the Constitution to directly defi ne ads as non-speech, I don’t know of any-thing likely to happen that’s going to change this in the near future,” Davis said.

Witty encounters po-litical ads on TV, YouTube

and Pandora, and said that they are effective to a point because they interrupt an activity and force people to listen.

Although people dislike negative ads, they do have an infl uence, especially on those who do not take the time to inform them-selves outside of watching a 30 second television spot. Negative ads are effective because people tend to re-member them. Even so, negative ads are general-ly not the basis for voting against a candidate, Davis said.

Although advertising is a guaranteed method to reach an audience, Scott hopes that someday cam-paigns and interest groups will listen to voters and change their tactics.

“Just because negative ads have always worked in the past doesn’t mean there’s not some sea change coming,” Scott said. “Maybe people will become less tol-erant of negative ads in the future. And that would be great.”

Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected].

*Totals are from 1/1/2007 through 4/22/2008 and from 1/1/2011 through 4/22/2012. Numbers include all presidential advertising on broadcast television and national cable.

Date from Kantar Media/CMAG with analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Positive vs. NegativeCANDIDATE 8.6% 91.4%

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TOTAL 9.1% 90.9%

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TOTAL 70.0% 30.0%

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I would say it’s a safe bet to claim that most people reading this column are at least vaguely familiar with Pussy Riot, the Russian anarchist demonstra-tors who made recent headlines for the arrest of three of its members.

This arrest prompted the United States State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland to state that the U.S. is “concerned about both the verdict and the disproportionate sentences…and the negative impact on freedom of ex-pression” that may result. The State De-partment urged Russian authorities to “review this case and to ensure that the right of freedom of expression is upheld.”

I would also bet that most people reading this column are not familiar at all with the recent arrests of three American anarchist demonstrators. America’s dissenters appear to not be making headlines on any popular news sources that Americans regularly come into contact with.

In the past month, Matt Duran, Katherine “Kateeo” Olejnik, and Le-ah-Lynn Plante have all been incarcer-ated and placed into solitary confine-ment (generally reserved for high risk and dangerous criminals) at the Fed-eral Detention Center in Seatac, Wash.

The heinous crime these three were found guilty of committing? Exer-

cising silence.Plante, the most recently indicted

on Oct. 10, had her home occupied and raided by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents on the morning of July 25.

She was accused of being involved with vandalism that occurred in Seattle on May Day and accused of lying when she insisted that nothing in her home was used in the alleged vandalism. The FBI agents confiscated personal items, books and other literature as “evidence” in a fashion reminiscent of “1984.”

Shortly after, Plante was called to testify in a federal grand jury that was intended to investigate anarchists in the Pacific Northwest.

Federal grand juries are convened as a means of honoring the Fifth Amendment (“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a present-ment or indictment of a Grand Jury.”)

However, in a grand jury, the Fourth (the part about search warrants, search-es, and seizures) and Sixth (speedy pub-lic trial, right to defense, and due pro-cess of law) Amendments become void.

Grand juries are used as a means of gathering evidence to decide if a crime has actually been committed. They accomplish this through using subpoenas — orders to testify or face punishment — to extract information from people with hopes of gather-ing enough solid evidence to create a criminal trial.

If you refuse to answer the ques-tions asked by a grand jury, then you can be accused of civil contempt, which will immediately result in a tri-al and (as is the case of Duran, Olejnik, and Plante) can result in being re-manded into federal custody.

In essence, grand juries have a ton of power, and the defense can’t do a thing about it except kneel over in sub-mission or face penance.

There is no “innocent until proven guilty.” There is only “cooperate or you

are guilty.” Federal grand juries are little more than witch hunts designed to force whistleblowing or face punishment.

Further adding to the unconscio-nable nature of the series of events that has occurred, evidence gathered via the Freedom of Information Act request has let it known that the jury was called on March 2, two months before the May Day vandalism that the jury focused on.

Everything about these arrests seems incredibly unethical. Every fac-et of the “justice” system feels grossly misused: The grand jury usage, the raid, the resulting punishment.

Things just smell fishy. Pieces don’t add up. It’s reflecting McCarthy-era fear tactics used to unjustly target peo-ple who have seemingly threatening political affiliations. I can’t speak for everyone, but simply saying “I will not answer your questions today” does not sound very threatening to me.

Despite everything, these activists have taken their penalties gracefully. As Plante said in her official statement on the day of her arrest, “Today is Oct. 10, 2012, and I am ready to go to pris-on.”

I do not know if Plante and her com-rades have participated in activities wor-thy of legal punishment. But I do know that I commend and admire them all for remaining unwavering in their convic-tions and resisting the federal grand jury, despite the resulting punishments.

Despite their anarchist affilia-tions, I cannot actually imagine a more “American” ideal than sacrificing ev-erything in order to fight for the integ-rity in freedom of speech.

If only the United States State De-partment felt freedom of expression was as important on domestic soil as they do for Russian activists.

Anna Mitchell is a junior liberal arts major. Her columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

The showdown last night was markedly different from the first presidential debate. In Denver, President Obama was vague, slow, and did not really appear like a candi-date who was running for President. Mitt Romney, by contrast, looked remarkably presidential: strong, asser-tive and concise.

This debate was any-thing but that. This time, the president came gun-ning for a fight. Obama was assertive, giving strong answers and retaliating di-rectly against some of Rom-ney’s attacks. He has taken a leaf out of Joe Biden’s book, which is a cause for Dem-ocrats across the country to celebrate. He looked like someone who really wants to remain the president, as opposed to a candidate who just showed up because he was supposed to.

Democrats, this is a man that you can get behind for president. This is a man who looked like the command-er-in-chief when discussing foreign policy. This is a man who looked like a leader.

Romney, though not exactly appearing weak, looked as if he was a little over-confident coming into the debate. It appeared as if he expected to find the same debater that he went up against in the first debate, and was surprised that this was not the case.

Granted, the performance from both was not exactly honest on several occasions.

One of the first questions in the debate involved the is-sue of gas prices, specifically a comment made by the En-ergy Secretary that gas prices were not the business of the Energy Department. Both candidates pitched their en-ergy policies, and both also made general promises that their energy policies will lower gas prices.

It’s a fact that is just not true at all. Gas prices are not directly influenced by the government, but are instead more of a manifestation of the economic principle of supply and demand. If the demand of gas goes up and supply remains unchanged, then prices go up.

Certainly you can make efforts to increase the supply of gas, but it is not something that is going to instantaneous-ly lower gas prices. There is not a magical lever that the

president can pull that magically lowers gas pric-es, and that is something that a lot of people do not seem to understand.

Romney was also unnecessarily vague on what exactly he is going to do with his five step plan for economic re-covery. He made a ton of references to it in the early stages of the de-bate, and the president was quick to jump on the fact that his plan is vague, stating that the only specific things that Romney will do to cut the deficit is get rid of Planned Parenthood and Sesame Street.

The president was also not entirely clean either. He misquoted Romney’s stance on the controver-sial SB 1070 bill in Arizo-na, stating that Romney believes it to be a model for the nation. Romney did speak favorably of SB 1070, but his immigration plan is far less draconian than the president would like us to believe, instead requiring businesses to use something called E-Verify to check if their hires are legal residents. Which is a far cry from demanding that anyone who looks Hispanic pro-vide their papers.

This should not sur-prise anyone. The Pres-idential Debates are not venues for a true aca-demic debate of issues and policies. Instead, the Presidential Debates are venues for candidates to give performances and have what amounts to a spirited exchange of talking points.

This is not necessarily a bad thing; we all need a chance to see how pres-idential the candidates look. But nobody should kid themselves into be-lieving that these de-bates are about who has the facts. At this point in the campaign the candi-dates have locked in their base and need to keep them enthusiastic for the ground operations on election day.

But Democrats should take this debate as a good sign that President Obama is getting serious about looking like a presi-dent. He won this debate, but the score is all tied up. One victory for Romney, one victory for Obama.

Let the final debate commence, and let the best actor win!

Editorial Assistant Ca-leb Hendrich is a senior political science and jour-nalism double major. His columns appear Wednes-days in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

The presidential debates are supposedly a window into the beliefs of the individuals running for the highest office in the coun-try, but cynics see the debates for the puppet show of talking points and political posturing that it really is. Debates have in the forgotten past been sub-stantive, but today we are only focused on how the candidates look in split screens and who has the best zingers.

The fact that the debates are a complete farce has been made even more glaringly apparent thanks to the Time’s Mark Halper-in obtaining — and publishing — a 21 page memorandum of under-standing that Romney and Obama have established with the Commis-sion on Presidential Debates.

Parameters established by the agreement state that “The

candidates may not ask each other direct questions during any of the four debates,” and for tonight’s town-hall debate “Each candidate may move about in a pre-designated area … and may

not leave that area while the de-bate is underway.”

The memorandum is a be-hind the scenes look at how the Republicans and Democrats — who supposedly are diametrical-

ly opposed — are actually cor-roborating to create the political theater that is our modern presi-dential debates.

The saddest part is that while audience members of last night’s debate will get to ask questions of our candidates (prescreened of course), audience members “shall not ask follow-up ques-tions,” with the agreement that the “Commission shall take ap-propriate steps to cut-off the microphone of any ... audience member who attempts to pose any question or statement differ-ent than that previously posed to the moderator for review.”

The answers to questions that the American people really want to hear will never see the light of day with the current col-laboration of the two party polit-ical binopoly.

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light of day...”“At this point ... the candidates

have locked in their base and need to keep them enthusiastic for the

ground operations on election day.”

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This week, Real Talk fo-cused on getting to the heart of the matter of love.

Interracial dating was the subject of Tuesday’s Real Talk, a weekly meeting at the Black/African-Amer-ican Cultural Center in the Lory Student Center where students gather to discuss issues affecting the black community.

About 10 students went to BAACC for the discussion.

The discussion began by focusing on the social ac-ceptability of interracial dat-ing. While the group agreed that it was acceptable, they also concluded that there were still issues when it comes to interracial dating.

The role of gender was a big discussion point. Some students felt it was easier for men to be in an interracial relationship than it was for women, due to established social roles, such as expect-ed passive behavior in wom-en.

Some of the students said that what they called hypocritical behavior in black men factored into this. There was a feeling that, while some black men date white women, they criticize their female counterparts for dating other races. This creates a stigma.

Alexandria Norris, a ju-nior human development and family studies major, said she has experienced this feeling when in public with her boyfriend of a dif-ferent race.

“When we go places, we get stared at –– a lot,” Norris said.

History’s infl uence on the current dating scene was also discussed. The group talked about how, due to older generations’ experience with segrega-tion, this creates a mindset of dating within one’s own race. In some cases, this may be passed down to younger generations, but it isn’t always.

Undeclared freshman Yazmin Atmore said she wasn’t of that mindset and would be open to dating anyone, regardless of race.

“I feel like if that’s who God sent me, I’m going to take them,” Atmore said.

Families, the group decided, had a large in-fluence in the choice of dating partners. Some of the people gathered said their parents sometimes expressed a preference

for same-race dating and had strong disapproval for anything else. This is also an issue when meeting a significant other’s family, as Norris found out. When

she met her boyfriend’s family, they began talking about Norris in Spanish, not knowing she spoke the language.

Parents, in particular,

were pegged as having im-pact. Rasheedah Fletcher, a senior human development and family studies major, said that she looks for some-one with qualities similar to

those of her father.“It stems from what I saw

growing up,” Fletcher said.Collegian Writer Devin

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

Students have a ‘Real Talk’ about interracial dating What: Real Talk Where: LSC Room 204 When: Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m.

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Makeda Hop-Crichlow discusses her standpoint on interracial dating at Real Talk in the Black/African American Cultural Center. The talk was a round-table discussion on thoughts and viewpoints of interracial dating.

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together that affect lots of peoples lives that cultivates and creates spaces for di-alogue instead of spaces that attack and judge and demean one another,” Di-mopoulos said.

Wahls’s speech, Dimopou-los hopes, sparks activism among the CSU community.

“I think most students are looking for ways to make changes in the world and he is one that certain has,” said Dimopoulos.

ASAP, who put on the event, expects a full house in the LSC Theatre bringing 270 to 280 students.

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name like Zach Wahls,” said Rechelle Fields, co-coordina-tor of Contemporary Issues at ASAP.

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CSUPD and CSU Parking services issued more than 40,000 tickets last year, generating almost $1 million in revenue, with the bulk of the money coming from parking tickets.

There are two kinds of tickets that students can receive on cam-pus. For traffi c violations, CSUPD issues “TEEP Tickets.” The infrac-tion stays on campus and is not reported to municipal or county court. Money collected from traffi c violations are used to help pay for police equipment and student and support staff salaries.

For biking violations, CSUPD issues “BEEP Tickets.” The violation stays on campus and is not reported to municipal or county court. Money collected from biking violations is used to help support bicy-cling on campus.

FISCAL YEAR 09/10835 Traffi c Tickets = $62,3121142 Biking Tickets = $30,698



AUG. 20/PRESENT141 Traffi c Tickets = $5,535354 Biking Tickets = $2,773

Fiscal Year Total Citations Warnings Voids Citation RevenueFY 09 – 10 41,376 2,163 14,981 $877,000

FY 10 – 11 36,250 2,761 12,781 $823,000

FY 11 – 12 37,687 8,106 10,178 $856,000FY 12 – 13 (7/1/12 – YTD) 9,075 6,051 206 $78,691

CITATION ISSUED BY CSU PARKING SERVICES*

*Information provided by CSU Parking Service records

Parking and traffi c tickets at CSU



By KYLE GRABOWSKIThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Boise State’s volleyball team will run a 6-2 offense when they come to Moby Arena, which features two setters in the back row rather than one in the front row like CSU employs.

This creates three at-tacking options in the front row rather than two, which alleviates pressure from the individual hitters.

The Broncos further complicate the scheme by accelerating their tempo to both outside hitters. Senior Liz Harden and sophomore Alyssa Gammel rank third and fourth in the Mountain West in kills per set at 3.68 and 3.47.

“It’s really going to stress (senior middle blockers) Megan (Plourde) and Breion (Paige),” CSU coach Tom Hilbert said. “They’re go-ing to have to be fast, disci-plined, watch the ball and go. At times they’re going to have to guess, or we’ll guess for them.”

It takes many well-rounded, technically

skilled volleyball players to run the system because a team is using all of its lim-ited substitutions to move the setters around. The out-side hitters are the team’s primary passers and must possess good ball-control skills.

Hilbert chose not to run a 6-2 at CSU because he re-cruits bigger, more athletic players that might be more long-term projects as com-plete players.

“We recruit a lot of kids who aren’t great volleyball players, who need develop-ment,” he said. “To run that system you need two setters and six attackers that are all competent and ready to play.”

Boise State chooses to recruit these smaller, more skilled players and fi t its sys-tem to that, which can create problems when the Broncos encounter taller, more ath-letic teams like CSU.

“They have the best ath-letes in the conference, and they’re the best blocking team in the conference,” Boise State coach Shawn Garus said. “Their size cre-

ates issues, but what they do with their size in the block-ing scheme makes them so dangerous.”

CSU’s “scheme block-ing” focuses on shutting down individual attackers rather than a system as a whole, which makes block-ing a 6-2 no different than blocking an offense with a single setter.

“We do it for every team, so there’s nothing really changing,” CSU se-nior middle blocker Megan Plourde said. “We’re going to find the best hitters, the most efficient hitters and Matt will be calling the same blocking calls we do for every team.”

The Broncos have been trying to work around that scheme by focusing on hit-ting higher and into the seams between blocks, but are more focused on their side of the net.

“We’re not going to let what our opponent does consume us,” Garus said.

Assistant sports edi-tor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at [email protected].

Boise State’s 6-2 offense not confusing for CSU volleyball

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