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Public Relations and Volunteer Coordinator Jennifer Hahnke places a flock of pink flamingos outside of the Women’s Resource Center office on Tues-day. Flamingo flocking is a fundraiser where donors can pay to have someone’s yard covered in flamingos as a way to show support for the center and raise awareness for breast cancer.

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Bright pink flamingos have over-

taken Larimer County business fronts, lawns and streets to fight breast cancer.

The Women’s Resource Center (WRC)’s Flamingo Flocking Fundraiser has been going on through the month of October to raise awareness about breast cancer. Throughout the month, anyone in Northern Colorado could send a flock of 20 plastic pink flamin-gos to someone’s yard for a day.

The flamingos are a fun way to pro-mote the work of WRC, according to Jennifer Hahnke, volunteer coordinator and head of public relations for WRC.

“When people are out around town, they can have a discussion about what the flamingos are and the flamingos can open a discussion so people can learn about the programs and life-sav-ing services we provide to women in Larimer County,” Hahnke said.

The WRC is a 501c3 private grass-roots nonprofit organization that helps educate women about health aware-

ness, prevention and affordable health services. Along with outreach and edu-cational programs, WRC brings wom-en across Larimer County affordable mammogram screenings, dental care and connects them with affordable doctors if they require further care.

Businesses and individuals alike have purchased a $30 “flock” during WRC’s Flamingo Flocking Fundraiser. Through the month of October, “flock-ing” has raised between $2,500 and $3,000 for the organization.

“It’s a very affordable fundraiser,” Hahnke said.

According to Hahnke, the WRC found a base of businesses that sup-port their work and will continue to be a part of the Flamingo Flocking Fun-draiser in years to come. Individuals purchased flocks for birthday celebra-tions, children’s parties and sent them to breast cancer fighters and survivors.

“All the money we raise goes right back into providing service to the wom-en of Larimer County,” Hahnke said.

WRC has been focusing on a new outreach program targeting high

school and college students in an at-tempt to promote volunteering and philanthropy among future leaders.

“If you (groups on CSU’s campus) are going to be a philanthropist, we want to help you be philanthropic. If you come and volunteer with our groups, we, in turn, want to advertise and promote your events,” Hahnke said. “It helps us get into the college campus-es and we can reach a larger audiences college students have yet to penetrate.”

Betsy Hill, a CSU masters student studying public health with a con-centration in global health and health disparities, has been working in WRC’s outreach department since June.

Hill and her outreach partner teach in-home workshops and small group educational workshops.

“Our base objective with outreach is the trickle down effect,” Hill said. “As students, all of us know someone who is uninsured or underinsured, so the idea is that if one person knows about our services we hope they will share it

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Students from all of greek life gather around the Kappa for Chili Con Kappa, their fall philanthropy event. People pay to get a cup of chili to help support the sorority.

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Best turnout ever for Chili Con Kappa

Students struggle to find common ground

By aManda ZEtaHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

While watching the first presidential debate, Stacy Win-ner, a 20-year-old business ju-nior major at CSU, was hesitant to talk to her father about the issue of taxing big businesses. Like many students, Winner’s parents influence her political beliefs, but she often doesn’t see eye to eye with them.

According to Kyle Saun-ders, a political science profes-sor at CSU, this is a common occurrence.

“In the last couple of generations, due to societal trends such as the increase of families with mixed parti-san identities, as well as the decline of the nuclear family, this has become the less the case,” Saunders said.

Younger voters are less likely to share the same views as their parents, because other political viewpoints are more readily available to students.

“I pay more attention to politics now that I can vote,” Winner said.

She grew up in a mixed par-tisan family. Her father is a Re-publican, while her mother is a Democrat. She associates clos-er with her mother’s ideals than with her father’s. This can cause tension within a household.

“My dad always tries to

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By aLLiSon SyLtEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

A long line of CSU students, parents, alumni and Fort Col-lins community members filed out of the Kappa Kappa Gam-ma house on Tuesday night, singing along to Garth Brooks and waiting to get their hands on a hot bowl of chili.

But it wasn’t the food or the country music that brought them to Chili Con Kappa, one of Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bi-annual philanthropy events.

Instead, it was the chance to support a good cause.

“When I first showed up, it took 20 minutes to get through the line, because there was such a huge turnout,” said Bik Bajwa, a junior computer tech-

nology and economics major. “I just think it’s great for us to come out and support chari-table causes.”

This year was the 10th an-niversary of Chili Con Kappa. Proceeds benefitted the Kap-pa Foundation, which sup-ports Kappas in need, as well as the Leukemia & Lympho-ma Society.

In the dining room where the countless bowls of chili were served, a poster board saying “Kappa [hearts] Em-ily” was displayed in honor of a Kappa sister at Kansas State University who has re-cently been diagnosed with leukemia, and who was an old friend of sorority Vice

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A fl ash mob in the plaza advocating for Relationship

Violence Awareness Week on Tuesday,

October 23. (Photo by Austin Simpson)

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Michael Brown apologizes for accusing CSU graduate of threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney

Michael Brown, for-mer FEMA director and 850 KOA News Radio show host, has apologized for accusing former CSU grad-uate student Katherine Van Wyngarden of threatening to assassinate Mitt Rom-ney.

Brown originally blogged on the 850 KOA website yesterday that Wyngarden tweeted, “and if Mitt Romney becomes president I’ll (sic) personal-ly assassinate himself (sic) fucking joke.”

The post has since been removed, and Brown apologized on the 850 KOA website today, writing that, “To the Katharine Wyn-garden at Colorado State University, I apologize.

I still have doubts about the misappropriation of a Twitter account, but am unable to verify one way or the other whether or not that Twitter account was misappropriated or not.”

Brown’s original post labeled Wyngarden as a current teaching assistant

at CSU, though an article that ran in the Oct. 3 Colle-gian identifi es Wyngarden as a former graduate stu-dent whose work at CSU in-cluded studying the effect of Facebook on politics.

Jared Leto to visit Colorado State campus for Obama Campaign event Wednesday

Actor and musician Jared Leto will visit the Lory Student Center Plaza Wednesday at 10:50 a.m. for the Obama Campaign, according to a news re-lease.

CSU is the fi rst of three stops in Colorado Wednes-day where Leto will pro-mote early voting.

Other stops in Colorado include UNC at 1 p.m., at the OFA Highland Field Of-fi ce at 3 p.m. and the Uni-versity of Denver at 4 p.m.

Leto is best known as the lead singer of the band 30 Seconds to Mars and as an actor in “Requium For A Dream” and “Fight Club“. He was also a supporter of Obama in 2008. His band wore Obama t-shirts at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.

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“Since health care represents one-sixth of our economy, I believe it makes more sense to build on what works and fi x what doesn’t, rather than try to build an entirely new system from scratch... (The ACA) will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses and our gov-ernment. It’s a plan that asks everyone to take responsibility for meeting this challenge – not just government and insur-ance companies, but employers and individuals,” Obama said in a speech to Congress Sept. 9, 2009.

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“I am so honored and ex-cited that the chapter chose to support my friend,” Jae-ger said. “It feels amazing to know that we are helping to fi nd a cure for leukemia, be-cause I feel like I am a part of her fi ght now.

“Finding out that some-one I care about is sick was heartbreaking, so I feel very blessed to have such wonder-ful sisters who were willing to support the Leukemia & Lym-phoma Society in her honor.”

This year’s Chili Con Kappa drew far more attend-ees than its ever had in its 10 year history, according to chapter President Arianna Zabriskie — in fact, for the fi rst time ever, Kappa ran out of chili because of the huge demand.

“This event has been the most successful fundraiser we have ever had,” Zabrisk-ie said. “...We are so excited

about the turnout, and owe it to the awesome CSU com-munity that has supported us.”

Last year’s event raised $1,500 for charity. This year’s raised $2,540.

A group of Kappas have been planning the event since August, and leading up to it, everyone in the house pitched in to help with dec-orations and other prepara-tions, house members said.

Wendy’s, Texas Roadhouse and King Soopers donated supplies. Alumnae, Kappa upperclassmen, parents, Kap-pa’s house mom and others pitched in to help cook.

Karl Schneider, whose daughter is a Kappa, drove up from Arvada for Chili Con Kappa. He said he made somewhere around six or seven liters of chili.

“It was nice to see a lot of people come out and show their support,” he said.

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Junior economics major Bik Bajwa, middle, stuffs down some Chili at Chili Con Kappa Tuesday night.

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On Monday night I watched the final presiden-tial debate. I then tuned in to a YouTube Live Stream video of presidential can-didate Gary Johnson dis-cussing the debates with Internet personalities Phil-lip DeFranco and Elliot C. Morgan.

Following the video feed I read a few articles and editorials, looked into a few fact-checking websites, and had a handful of Face-book conversations about various political topics, in-cluding the benefits and disadvantages of voting for a third party candidate.

This is a pretty normal amount of daily political re-search for me. So I often get caught off-guard by people who are way more turned-off by the political sphere.

I understand politics can be scary or annoying. Politics seems to be lit-tle more than a bunch of (mostly) men shouting at one another, as their cit-izens follow suit. From bumper stickers, to coffee cups, to ads on Hulu, there is a lot of loud noise coming at you from all directions.

Like many people, I don’t like loud noises, and certainly I don’t like how polarizing dirty politics can become.

But I don’t think poli-tics need to be polarizing or dirty. Despite all the negative factors, I do think that there is something beautiful about dialogue being created amongst a group of people surround-ing meaningful and im-pactful topics.

Especially if, as is the case for myself and many other college students, this is the first time you get to really have a voice on is-sues.

There is something ex-citing about your first ever presidential election. You feel empowered. You feel invested. You feel as if — for the first time in your (how-ever short) adult life — you could make a difference. Your vote counts in a de-mocracy. You matter be-cause you have a vote.

But if you are not willing to educate yourself on who and what you are voting for, I beg you — PLEASE stay home on Election Day.

Now, this sound con-trary to things I’ve said in the past. I’ve spent a lot of energy the last three months encouraging every adult I know to register to vote. I really support the idea that every vote does matter in the election out-come.

However, with the right

to a voice in democracy comes the responsibili-ty to educate yourself on where your vote is going. An uneducated vote is far worse than no vote at all.

Fortunately, we live in the age of research, so educating yourself is not difficult.

Figure out how much research is enough for you. Maybe that just means skimming the Wikipedia pages of each candidate. Maybe that means tuning into the debates and read-ing opinion editorials on various issues. Maybe you rely on your friends to tell you about who they are voting for and why.

This will be different for everyone. For exam-ple, while I find debates to be a great tool in edu-cating voters, my room-mate refuses to watch debates and instead just skips ahead to looking up fact checking websites the next morning. And while we may have differing po-litical opinions, it doesn’t matter because both our opinions are educated.

For me, “enough” re-search means figuring out who is on enough state ballots to hypothetical-ly win the minimum re-quired Electoral votes, and devoting time to figuring out who I think would best serve our country and represent my own per-sonal stance on politics. I look into both partisan and nonpartisan sources, and try to get information whenever and wherever it is available.

This may take a lot of effort, but I know that I am using my vote in the absolute best way I possi-bly can. I understand that what constitutes “enough” for other people may be a lot less work.

But the reward of this labor is getting to voice an opinion that carries weight.

A good friend of mine recently referred to me as a “Political Pokemon” that he could summon at a moment’s notice to discuss the election and the candidates/issues on the ballot because I care enough to research the topics.

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Of course, whether a person listens to my opin-ions or not is their choice (and I certainly hope I am not forcing them onto anyone). But at least I do my democratic duty in forming those opinions before I put them out there.

If you aren’t willing to do that work this election, just don’t bother with vot-ing. My vote will actually matter in this election. Will yours?

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].

In an interview with the Hart-ford Courant, UCONN women’s basketball coach Geno Auriem-ma suggested that lowering the rim for women would help in-crease the popularity of the game by creating higher offensive effi-ciency. While Auriemma’s posi-tion in the basketball landscape is well-respected, his stance here is completely off the mark.

There is no reason the rim should be lowered and the rules of the game changed, and it’s wildly inappropriate for Auriem-ma to suggest that women ath-letes are less capable than men.

The problem isn’t the height of the rim, it’s our culture’s ap-proach to female athletics.

We place an emphasis on male athletics. As a result there are far fewer women interested

in pursuing an athletic career and the talent pool is severely lowered because of this cultural expectation. This is at the root of women’s basketball’s diminished popularity.

The same five collegiate teams get the top level players and compete each year, effec-tively eliminating the thrill of the upset that is at the core of the men’s game’s success. Title IX

worked to close the gap between men and women in sports. Let’s not undo that by saying women are less capable of playing with a 10 foot rim.

Auriemma argues volleyball lowers the net for women and softball fields are smaller than baseball diamonds, “so the wom-en have the chance for the same kind of success at the net (as the men)." What message does that send to girls across the country? Certainly not the correct one.

Yes, women’s basketball and other female sports are in need of a change, but it’s not by alter-ing their rules and dimensions. We need to encourage women to pursue athletic competition from a young age and let them know they are no different than men.

Those of you who have already par-ticipated in early voting this year, or have mailed in your ballots ahead of time, may have noticed something pe-culiar about this year’s ballot. This year, unlike in 2008 and 2010, we the Colo-rado electorate are not being asked to vote on whether or not a fertilized egg qualifies for full rights as a citizen of the United States of America.

In 2008, Amendment 48 was pro-posed by a movement called “Colorado for Equal Rights.” The bill that was pro-posed would amend the constitution of the state of Colorado so that the terms “person” and “persons” would include any human being from the moment of fertilization. The intention of the amend-ment was to criminalize abortion; essen-tially equating abortion to murder.

Amendment 48, while wildly pop-ular amongst the Colorado Pro-Life movement, utterly failed in the 2008 election. In fact, it lost by a margin of 26 percent for to 74 percent against. In electoral terms, that was a devastating loss. Measures on topics this controver-sial rarely get decided by nearly 50 per-centage points.

Undeterred, the Colorado Pro-Life movement put forward another amendment called Amendment 62 in 2010 under the umbrella organization Personhood USA.

Amendment 62 had essentially the

same theme as Amendment 48, even though it was worded slightly different. While 48 applied the term “person” to newly fertilized eggs, 62 stated that the term “person” to eggs that had been bi-ologically fertilized. According to Per-sonhood USA founder Keith Mason, the wording change was to prevent any protection of human cloning.

Once again, Colorado voters were not enthusiastic for the idea of person-hood for fertilized eggs. Amendment 62 lost in a vote of 70 percent to 29 per-cent. Another monumental margin for a controversial topic. But displaying a sense of dogged stubbornness that many politicians wish they had, Per-sonhood USA tried to get another per-sonhood amendment on the 2012 bal-lot. However, they failed to get enough signatures to get the amendment on the ballot. Evidently, voters decided to just nip this issue in the bud before it even came up on the ballot.

On the national political stage, a lot of other states are coming to the same conclusions as Colorado. Personhood Amendments have been proposed on state ballots ranging from liberal bas-tions like California to states as far to the right as Mississippi, and they have failed to pass almost universally.

There’s a good reason for this. Giv-ing “person” status to fertilized eggs carries a lot of unintended legal con-sequences. For one thing, any woman who has ever had a miscarriage or giv-en birth to a stillborn child automati-cally becomes a murderer. For another, a lot of common birth control methods that act to prevent pregnancy (such as the morning after pill) become murder weapons in the eyes of the law.

And consider the possibility of the mother’s death. If a mother dies in childbirth (admittedly not something that happens very often) and the in-fant has the same rights as a person, do you charge the infant with murder? If the birth of the infant results in severe tearing or infection, do you charge the infant with assault?

It sounds absolutely ridiculous, ob-viously, but if such an amendment is approved those sorts of questions are going to be coming up and are going to have to be decided, no matter how ludicrous they are. It is a legal quagmire that would be extremely unpleasant to wade through, no matter how fervent one’s desire to outlaw abortion is.

It is not all that hard to see why this is not exactly appealing. It’s prob-ably the best example of the kind of “Big Brother” government that small government conservatives like to talk about all the time. All of a sudden, the state decides that it has to insert itself into a woman's pregnancy and monitor it every step of the way.

Every decision that an expecting mother makes is suddenly the busi-ness of the government. If she drinks or smokes, there’s a criminal charge. If she is not eating the right kind of foods, there is another charge.

This is one area where the govern-ment red tape has absolutely no busi-ness being in.

But Personhood USA is not giving up. Far from it. Shortly after they were informed that the latest iteration of a personhood amendment was not going to be making the ballot, Personhood USA stated that they were not going to be giving up.

“Hopefully this proves our tenaci-ty,” said Personhood USA founder Keith Mason.

So be on the lookout for anoth-er potential personhood amendment coming up for the 2014 off-year elec-tion. This is not an issue that is going to be dying off anytime soon, despite its unpopularity. Keep voting “No”, Col-orado. This is a government overreach that we absolutely do not need.

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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In the Lory Student Center, Our Legacy, Our Stories, Celebrating 50, the 1960s and 1970s 50th Celebration insert cited “LSC 7” member Bill Neighbors as being a “decorated military vet when he arrived on campus.”

While Neighbors has served his community in many positive ways, he is not a decorated military veteran.

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Senior mechanical engineering major Nate Sherman votes in the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center Monday afternoon. Early voting began Monday, Oct. 22 in the Lory Student Center and is open from 8 am to 5 p.m. until next Friday, Nov. 2.

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By CARRIE MOBLEYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

A new campus-wide committee has been formed in order to improve and as-sess student success, ac-cording to its chairman and CSU Provost Rick Miranda.

The 12-member group has been formed as a re-sponse to President Tony Frank’s challenge in his Fall Address to increase its fi rst-year retention rate to 90 per-cent and graduation rate to 80 percent. Currently, those rates are in the mid ‘80s and ‘60s range, respectively.

“We will be especial-ly focused on infl uencing student learning,” Miranda said. “And we know that up-grading that is paramount to improving educational at-tainment.”

As for specifi c plans for the new committee’s meet-ings, Miranda said the fi rst order of business is to as-sess the current position of the university with regards to student success. The next step, he said, will be brain-storming ideas.

“After we have assessed all possible plans and strategies we will try to se-lect three to give initiatives and prioritize them so that we can try them and just see how they go,” Miranda said.

As for specifi c goals the committee already has in place, Thayer said the main goals are to decrease current gaps that may exist in stu-dent success.

“A big part of this is to eliminate gaps in student success and also to short-en the average time it takes a student to graduate,” said Paul Thayer, associate vice president for student affairs. “The biggest part of decreas-ing that, of course, comes with higher fi rst year reten-tion rates.”

In the end, however, Miranda said that it is not so much the numbers that matter, as the individual re-sults.

“Every student is import-ant to us,” Miranda said. “We try not to think so much in numbers as we do in impact-ing lives — that means a lot to us.”

A similar effort was launched in 2005. About seven years ago the a cam-pus-wide committee came up with several initiatives

that CSU could focus on and then made a set of recom-mendations to campus offi -cials. The university has since then been “chipping away” at those recommendations.

Miranda stressed that “… It’s a committee of a new era with new issues to ad-dress. We are trying to pri-oritize certain initiatives in order to increase graduation and retention rates.”

The biggest accom-plishment of that last com-mittee, according to Miran-da, was the introduction of academic support coordi-nators to every college, a task that is not quite com-plete yet.

“All eight colleges cur-rently have these academic support coordinators, but not all 54 departments,” Miranda said. “We are still committed to accomplish-ing that, as well as adding new initiatives to start on.”

Other accomplishments by the last committee in-clude creating the TiLT Pro-gram, a longer orientation and transition program for fi rst year students, rede-signing more than 90 cours-es to refl ect student feed-back, and increasing efforts to encourage students to consider higher education, according to Thayer.

“We have realized that there is no one single thing that will make a difference,” Thayer said. “It will be a whole range of things … there is no endpoint to this committee.”

ASCSU Beat Report-er Carrie Mobley can be reached at [email protected].

New commitee to close success gapASCSU and Provost’s o� ce team up to increase Ram’s graduation and retention rates

“...It’s a commitee of a new era with new issues to address. We are tying

to prioritize certain initiative in order to increase graduation and

retention rates.”

Rick Miranda | (CSU Provost)

Why does CSU need a com-mitee on student success?

Dr. Tony Frank has challenged the university to increase its fi rst year return rates to 90 percent and its graduation rates to 80 per-cent in the next six years.

According to Provost Rick Miranda, current fi rst year return rates are in the mid 80s, with graduation rates in the mid 60s.

Because of this, the uni-versity is working to close gaps in student success and improve retention, with hopes of also decreasing the amount of time it takes for a student to graduate.

WHY?

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point out Romney’s great points,” Winner said. “He sees things differently than I do.”

Another CSU student, junior biology major Ha-ley Wilson, shared a sim-ilar experience because she does not harbor the same views as her par-ents. In her case, both parents are strict Repub-licans and she comes from Arizona, which of-ten votes Republican in the elections.

“We are always combat-ing ideals and views,” Wilson said. A few issues that they disagree on include: women’s rights, same sex marriage, immigration and healthcare. Wilson used to share her par-ent’s views until she moved out of their home and to

Colorado. Then, she fl ipped from Republican to a more liberal political stance.

“My dad thinks I am a Democrat because I am in college,” Wilson said.

This tends to hap-pen, especially with col-lege-aged students, ac-cording to Saunders. They are released from the bub-ble of their hometown and their parents’ viewpoints and are introduced to dif-ferent viewpoints on a vari-ety of issues.

“Students tend to be more liberal in their polit-ical belief systems, and are also more likely to iden-tify with the Democratic Party than the Republi-cans,” Saunders said.

In a study done by Christopher H. Achen of the University of Michi-gan, he suggests that par-

tisanship is well established because “most parents transmit their party identifi -cation to their children.”

“I think it depends on how you are raised,” Win-ner said.

For example, parents that pushed their own po-litical agenda on their chil-dren often have children that accept these ideals as the norm.

Another study by the University of Boulder said children are often subject to “parental transmission of partisanship.” Children often don’t question the

ideals passed on to them until much later.

“If you come from a family where politics was discussed at the dinner table and news programs were discussed in an engaged fashion, those children are much more likely to become engaged in politics and pay atten-tion to the news, and in turn have stronger parti-san identities,” Saunders said.

City Beat Report-er Amanda Zetah can be reached at [email protected].

HOMETOWN | Political ideals start with parents



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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The iPad Mini, the long-ru-mored smaller tablet from Apple, has made its debut.

Apple launched the 7.9-inch tablet computer at an invitation-only me-dia event Tuesday, telling a crowd of reporters that the device is as thin as a pen-cil and weighs .68 pounds. Prices for the iPad Mini start at $329.

“It’s as light as a pad of paper,” said Apple’s mar-keting chief, Phil Schiller.

The iPad Mini will be available for pre-order on Friday. The Wi-Fi version will go on sale Nov. 2 while cellu-lar versions of the device will arrive two weeks later.

The Wi-Fi model starts at $329 for 16 GB of storage while its cellular counter-part begins at $459.

Rumors have swirled for months that Apple was designing a competitor to Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus 7, smaller and cheaper devic-es that appeal to on-the-go

consumers who don’t want to shell out for the pricey iPad.

Apple has sold more than 84 million iPads since its debut in April 2010.

Now, despite resistance from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who reported-ly said consumers would have to “sand down their fingers” to properly use a smaller tablet, Apple is looking to expand its share in a growing, highly com-petitive tablet market.

The timing of the launch, just ahead of the all-important holiday sea-son, is a smart move, an-alysts said. Many have already predicted strong demand from consumers for the smaller iPad.

“In our view, the iPad Mini stands to target price-sensitive users and the e-reader crowd,” JP-Morgan analyst Mark Mos-kowitz wrote in a note to investors ahead of the me-dia event. “Given the global economic uncertainty, we think price-sensitive users could gravitate toward an iPad Mini instead of mak-ing a PC purchase.”

Apple debuts iPad Mini tablet

By ChriStopher BoAnThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The ability to systemat-ically place adult stem cells in locations around the body might sound like something out of a sci-fi film, but it’s just part of the daily grind for CSU assistant professor Ashok Prasad.

Prasad’s work on stem cell topography has earned the CAREER Award from the National Science Founda-tion, which goes to junior faculty members that con-duct excellent research and education.

Prasad, who works in the Department of Chemical Bi-ological Engineering, said his team’s work could help solve a variety of issues involv-ing the human body, rang-ing from arthritis to organ transplants. Their goal is to help use stem cells to rebuild damaged tissues and bones.

“These issues are inter-esting, as both bone and tissue are vital to human development, so if we can create them then we could help create a breakthrough,” Prasad said.

His career path leading

up to his work at CSU in-cluded serving as a professor of economics for 12 years at the University of Delhi, where he worked until he came to the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in economics.

“This is a second ca-reer for me,” Prasad said. “I used to teach economics at a college in India, but when I came to the United States I found the field of biomed-ical research fascinating, so I started doing research on the immune system and never looked back.”

One of the things Prasad finds interesting is the close bond he has with his grad-uate and Ph.D. student as-sistants and the fact that he is able to study fresh topics frequently.

“It’s never too late to try something new. My research here at CSU is quite broad,” Prasad said. “Some of the oth-er stuff I research on in my lab is computational biology, so I work closely with experi-mentalists and my assistants, with the overall philosophy of trying to discover engineering principles of life.”

One such assistant is CSU Ph.D. student Saman-

the Lyons, who attributes her success in the program to Prasad’s work as a teacher and advisor.

“I feel like I am incredi-bly lucky to have gotten Dr. Prasad as my Ph.D. advisor,” Lyons said. “He’s an incredi-ble teacher and advisor, and has an amazing attitude.”

Prasad’s skills as a teach-er revolve around his ability to connect with his students and let them have a say in the research done by the team.

“Dr. Prasad gives us the tools needed so we can learn the subject on our own,” Ly-ons said. “The way he runs his lab is absolutely amaz-ing, we have a lot of input on how we do our work, and we have a lot of fun together, which is always nice.”

Chintan Joshi, who is a graduate student at CSU, be-lieves that Dr. Prasad’s abili-ty to come up with real world examples sets him apart as a teacher, and as a person.

“The reason Dr. Prasad is successful is his ability to give examples that relate to students,” Joshi said. “I’ve taken several courses with him, and the way he works with students, and the time

he takes to make sure that you understand the subject is truly amazing.”

Graduate Assistant Dustin Robert Berger said Dr. Prasad’s ability to achieve high levels of success stems from his love of the subject.

“Dr. Prasad is definitely accepting and allows his stu-dents to study the topics that interest them,” Berger said. “I am thrilled that the work we have been doing has led to this prestigious award for him. It’s pretty awesome.”

This willingness to be flexible with students, along with the respect held for his assistants are what Prasad said drives his research.

“Ever since coming to CSU I have had fantastic stu-dents, they have gone to the best places in the world and will do well there,” Prasad said. “Working with them has been a joy, I really enjoy working with my students, I really enjoy the whole ex-perience, because they are bright and are really excited about the experience, which I really enjoy.”

Collegian Writer Christo-pher Boan can be reached at [email protected].

the man behind the medalsCSU professor and his team reflect on historic achievement

“I feel like I am incredibly lucky to have gotten Dr. Prasad as my Ph.D. advisor. He’s an incredible teacher

and advisor and has an amazing attitude.”Samanthe Lyons | Ph.D. student assistant

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

flAmingoS | WRC works to remove barriers

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By LesLey CLark, WiLLiam DougLas anD anita kumarThe McClatchy Tribune

HENDERSON, Nev. — President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Rom-ney joined their running mates in rallying thousands of supporters in must-win battleground states Tuesday as they entered the final, frenzied, two-week stretch of the presidential race.

Obama continued with a familiar line of attack, argu-ing that Romney has shifted positions on key issues to win voters.

“Trust matters,” a shirt-sleeved Obama told a crowd estimated at 9,500 at a park in Dayton, Ohio. “You know, Ohio, you know me. You know I mean what I say and I do what I’m go-ing to do. You know that I will make the tough de-cision, even when it’s not popular.”

Romney criticized the president for answering Republicans’ charge of having no second-term agenda by distributing a 20-page pamphlet and a new TV ad with already-in-troduced plans. Rom-ney’s campaign promptly dubbed it a “glossy panic button.”

“That’s why his cam-paign is taking on water and our campaign is full steam ahead,” the former Massa-chusetts governor told 6,000 people at an outdoor pavilion in Henderson, Nev. “Attacks on me are not an agenda.”

Obama campaigned in Florida and Ohio. Romney ap-peared in Nevada before hold-ing an evening rally in Colo-rado with New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and singers Kid Rock and Rodney Atkins. Together, the two campaigns introduced four new ads Tues-day, including a pair in which the men speak directly into the cameras as they make their fi-nal pitches to undecided vot-ers in swing states, who’ll de-termine the winner.

Obama and Romney

participated in their third debate Monday night in Florida. It marked their final joint appearance before the Nov. 6 election.

Initial polls found voters split on who won the de-bate, with the president tak-ing a slight edge. Romney’s stronger performance in the first debate Oct. 3 led to his steady uptick in the polls. He remains ahead in overall na-tional rankings, according to a compilation of surveys by the website RealClearPolitics, though Obama continues to lead in some battleground states, including Ohio, New Hampshire and Iowa.

A new Washington Post-ABC News national tracking poll released late Tuesday found a statistical dead heat with Romney at 49 percent and Obama at 48 percent among likely voters. Nearly all interviews were conducted before the final debate.

In Nevada, Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, his vice pres-idential nominee, sought to portray their campaign as picking up momentum as part of “a movement across the country, as people are realizing we can do a better job than the past four years.”

“We can handle two more weeks of campaigning, but we can’t handle four more years of what he’s given us,” Rom-ney said, ticking off unem-ployment numbers, sinking housing costs and rising gas prices. He said he’d deliver 12 million new jobs, raise take-home pay and cap spending.

“The president’s ap-proach to creating jobs is another stimulus,” Romney said to shouts of derision from the audience. “How’d the first one work out? . . . His vision for the future is a repeat of the past.”

Kevin Kersey, 41, who attended the rally along with his wife and 3-year-old namesake, said he supported Romney because of the can-didate’s business experience.

“That’s what we need in that office, a business-

man, someone with pri-vate-sector experience,” said Kersey, of Henderson, who owns a pool service company. “We need a busi-nessman to run this coun-try.”

A fired-up Obama began his day speaking to 11,000 in the South Florida city of Del-ray Beach before joining Vice President Joe Biden in Ohio, where he accused Romney of coming down with a case of “Romnesia” — forgetting or abandoning his previous positions.

“If you said that you love American cars during the debate, you’re a car guy, but you wrote an article titled ‘Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,’ you definitely have a case of ‘Romnesia,’ “ the president said to cheers.

Romney, who’s promot-ed a more centrist message in recent weeks, has been under fire for softening or changing his views on a number of policies, includ-ing immigration, tax cuts and abortion.

Obama reminded the crowd that he’d backed the auto industry bailout, a move that Romney opposed. While Detroit and Michigan have a reputation as the auto capital of America, Ohio also is the home of several auto-mobile plants and an auto parts industry. One in eight Ohio jobs is linked to the in-dustry.

“Folks don’t remember what we did with the auto industry. It wasn’t popular when we did it. It wasn’t even popular in Michigan and Ohio. But it was necessary,” the president said.

Obama spoke Tuesday about his newly released agenda, which includ-ed little that hadn’t been proposed before. It stress-es classic Obama themes such as “building an econ-omy from the middle class out” and promising 1 mil-lion more manufacturing jobs by 2016, keeping the 2010 federal health care law in place and recruiting

100,000 math and science teachers.

“I’ve laid out a plan for jobs and middle-class secu-rity. And unlike Mitt Rom-ney, I’m actually proud to talk about what’s in it, be-cause my plan actually will move America forward,” the

president said in Florida. Romney hasn’t specified all the steps he’d take to reduce the federal budget deficit by trillions of dollars.

Richard Clay Dixon, who served as the mayor of Dayton from 1987 to 1994, said he was confident that

Obama would win Ohio and re-election. He just wishes the race weren’t so close.

“It’s closer than we would like. At one time he was 10 points ahead,” he said. “But with the early voting, we’re doing a good job in getting people out.”

obama, romney head back to battleground states

President Barack Obama greets supporters with a wave in Delray Beach, Florida, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, the morning after the third and final presidential debate held at Lynn University in Boca Raton. Several thousand supporters filled the Delray Beach Tennis Center to hear the President speak at what the campaign called a Grassroots Event.

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