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By ANDREW SCHALLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

After going up 20 points at halftime, it appeared CU-Boulder would run away with an easy victory over rival CSU Wednesday night. In the end, CSU made a big run cutting the Buffs’ lead down to one posses-sion, but CU managed to hang on for a 70-61 victory.

In front of a Coors Event Center record 11,708 scream-ing fans, the Buffs did what they had to in order to pull out their biggest victory of the young season.

The Rams’ offense strug-gled to get off the ground in the fi rst half, scoring just 22 points while shooting 30 per-cent from the fi eld.

“It’s just embarrassing the way we came out,” se-nior guard Dorian Green said. “They punked us, I mean, they were more physical, more ag-gressive and they had us on our heels.”

The second half gave the Rams hope, however, thanks to timely shooting from Green, who tallied 18 points, and tough defense allowing CSU to get back into the game.

The Rams’ offense, which got off to a 17-7 run in the sec-ond half struggled to maintain that pace in the second half, with turnovers and, at times, sloppy play dooming CSU.

The Rams had a total of 14 turnovers in the game, a sea-son high against a Buffs team that simply outworked their opponent.

“We were totally out played, we were totally out-physicaled particularly in the fi rst half,” CSU coach Larry Eustachy said. “I didn’t know what to expect because I didn’t know what to expect in this situation but I do now.

“And I told my team after the game, I apologized to them and told them ‘I have not got-ten you tough enough to get your game and take it from Fort

Collins in here to Boulder.’”While the Rams’ offense

sputtered, the Buffs’ offense showed periods of dominance and managed to continuously answer the bell when they had to while running a fast-tempo

offense led by point guard Spencer Dinwiddie.

Dinwiddie, who fi red a shot at CSU over the week calling the Rams CU’s “little brother” backed up his words by torching the Rams’ defense

to the tune of 29 points.The issues CSU had

Wednesday night brings up painful memories for the Rams from last season, as the they went an impressive 14-1 at home in 2011-12, but posted a mere 3-9 record on the road.

The game against CU pro-vided the Rams with a their fi rst diffi cult road test of the young season and the result was more of the same struggles from last year.

“We didn’t handle it well again tonight Eustachy said of his team’s road performance. “To duplicate this in practice, you can’t. So we need games like this.”

CSU will now go on its lon-gest road trip of the season so far when it travels to Universi-ty of Illinois-Chicago, who the Rams will play Saturday after-noon at 2 p.m. MT.

Men’s Basketball Beat Re-porter Andrew Schaller can be reached at [email protected].

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By AUSTIN BRIGGS and KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

It’s been talked about at length for over a year now, but with less than four weeks until the nation possibly goes over the fi scal cliff, Congress still ap-pears to be no closer to reach-ing a budget agreement than they were last August, when a committee was charged with crafting a budget deal.

The committee failed and if legislators can’t reach a compromise by the end of the month, approximately $500 billion in automatic federal spending cuts and tax increas-es will be implemented.

Lower and middle income higher education students will be impacted more than other groups.

According to the State Asso-ciation of National of State Stu-dent Aid Grant & Aid Programs, “If Congress does not act, the cost of attending college will increase by about $5,000, per student, per year, starting with the 2013-14 academic year, for many low and middle income families — and that's before taking into account any in-creases in tuition, fees and oth-er costs of attendance.”

The key question adminis-tration offi cials at CSU asked about the fi scal cliff is what would happen to the federal Pell Grant program, said Tom Biedscheid, interim director of Student Financial Services.

“Pell is an integral part of our Commitment to Colo-rado,” Biedscheid said, refer-encing one of CSU’s college affordability program for stu-dents who come from middle- and lower-income families. “Any loss in Pell, any change in Pell, can have a major impact to the institution. So we keep a close eye on that.”

CSU students received $22 million out of $33.4 billion in Pell Grants that were distrib-uted nationally in the 2011-12 school year. Most government agencies and programs would see an across the board cut of 8.2 percent.

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By KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

What was once Pedro Boscan’s home is a giant hole in the ground, sur-rounded by charred trees that used to be a dense forest. Now the forests’ rem-nants barely conceal the view of a road and other houses thanks to the summer 2012 High Park Fire.

“The reason we moved up here doesn’t exist any more,” Boscan said, who works as a volunteer fi refi ghter and associate professor of clinical vet-erinary science at CSU.

The blaze burned about 89,000 acres by the time it was extinguished. Since the disaster, some areas that were less burned experienced some regrowth and ground cover, while more severely burned areas have been sterilized by the fi re. The total structures lost in the fi re totaled 274, according to Bob Gann, fi re chief of the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department.

Boscan’s home burned the second day of the fi re.

“It is heartbreaking to the point that for me as a volunteer fi refi ghter, if an-other fi re comes through here I’m going to come to my house. I’m sorry for all

my neighbors and the school and any-one else, but I am never going to do this again in my life.” Boscan said “... I’d still be a fi refi ghter, and I like it and I want to help others, but I will not sacrifi ce my house ever again.”

Boscan is underinsured by about $100,000 and is doing much of the re-building work himself, including re-moving dead trees and controlling ero-sion by planting seeds in the area. Work on his property and at the university is equivalent to two full-time jobs, he said.

Before the fi re started, Boscan, his wife and some friends were supposed to go to Beaver Creek for the Tough Mudder run. Instead, they had to evac-uate and Boscan was fi ghting the fi re in another area when his house burned. The news was “demoralizing” and “ex-tremely frustrating.”

“It was extremely emotional,” Boscan said. “I actually apologized to a couple of the fi refi ghters because I was extremely emotional. I was frustrated, I’m not going to call it angry because it wasn’t really angry, just a moment of desperation.”

Boscan estimates that based on the work and money put into his original house and what he received from his

insurance company, he lost $150,0000 to $200,000.

Boscan was not the only CSU profes-sor affected by the fi re. H.J. Siegel, Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineer-ing and professor of computer science, began volunteering for the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department shortly after moving to the area in 2001. His goal was to get involved with the community and he said he never expected to deal with a fi re of High Park’s magnitude.

The defensive measures Siegel learned from the fi re department helped protect his home during the High Park Fire. He made sure trees were cut away from his house and that the building’s materials were non-fl ammable.

Boscan’s property also had defen-sible space and his home would have survived if his neighbor’s trees, which were close to the house, had not caught on fire.

The only thing Siegel lost in the fi re was his refrigerator, which was fi lled with food that spoiled when the power was off for 20 days.

“My job was fi ghting the fi re, not

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Pedro Boscan, a Colorado State professor, cleans up the remains of his house after the Rist Canyon fi re. Boscan is rebuilding his house with help from neighbors in the community.

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Colorado State forward Greg Smith (44) lunges for a loose ball against Colo-rado guard Askia Booker (0) during the fi rst half of Wednesday night’s game in Boulder.

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Rising through the ashesCSU professor, Rist Canyon residents still rebuilding a� er High Park Fire

“� ey punked us, I mean, they were more physical, more aggressive and they had us on our heels.”Dorian Green | senior guard

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Dead Week Donuts? Yes, please

Head over to the Clark A wing to buy $1 donuts Thurs-day and Friday from the CSU Rams Cycling Team, which is hoping to sell 720 donuts by the end of their Dead Week Donuts campaign.

According to the team’s president, Phillip Sommers, the fundraising drive was created to help the cyclists’ traveling expenses and costs associated with attending

a training camp in Tucson, Ariz. from January 12 to 19.

This the 30-member team’s second time hosting Dead Week Donuts. The last time was in 2011, when they sold 25 dozen donuts per day. Supporters can buy a dozen for $10.

Earth at night, by satellite

A satellite 512 miles above Earth has taken

some of the most detailed images ever of the planet at night, thanks to research-ers at the NOAA Coopera-tive Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at CSU (CIRA).

The satellite, called the Suomi National Polar-or-biting Partnership, is a joint venture between NASA and the National Oceanic At-mospheric Administration (NOAA). It allows research-ers to see clouds at night, which could change the way climate research is conduct-

ed.“This development is

exciting and impressive,” said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service, in a statement. “This could be especially useful to our meteorologists in areas like Alaska, where the winter months have long periods of darkness.”

Before Suomi NPP, “noise” and inadequate sensitivity made night-time image-capture diffi-cult.

CSU biology profs awarded $2 million grant

CSU scientists working on crops for car fuel got funding for their research this week.

June Medford, Mauricio Antunes and Ashok Prasad, three CSU professors, received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The team studies syn-thetic biology, particularly that of plants. Their work on

biofuels was chosen from over 4,000 submissions.

“While our work has specific near-term goals for bioenergy crops, our regu-latory genetic circuits could also find application for bio-fuels, biomanufacturing and bioengineering, allowing the U.S. to retain technological lead in renewable energy,” Medford said.

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Colorado State students are working with universities around the world to create a market and way to sell af-fordable products to devel-oping countries.

As a part of CSU’s Glob-al Social and Sustainable Use Enterprise (GSSE) MBA through the College of Busi-ness, students and staff have connected with students in Africa to create an inter-national entrepreneurship program. The purpose of the program is to educate entre-preneurship in East Africa through Kenya’s United States International University.

Students in the program learn how to market prod-ucts for food and water for those who can’t afford ev-eryday products. Students at CSU get to learn how to mar-ket and connect internation-ally with students around the world.

“Smart people design stuff for you and me,” said Carl Hammerdorfer, the di-rector of GSSE. “(The prob-lem is) how do we design for the other four million (peo-ple), so it’s affordable and du-rable. It is not enough to de-sign a product, we have to get it to them, which is how our business comes into play.”

“We see enterprise solu-tions in most viable means to build prosperity in a de-veloping country,” he added.

Recently, MIT was grant-ed $15 million to design these products to improve life in Africa; however they needed people to know how to sell it on a market, accord-ing to Hammerdorfer. MIT

gave the GSSE program $4.1 million to get their designs sold to the African people.

“CSU brings to the party a way to build a business to bring life-changing products to people,” Hammerdorfer said.

GSSE student Meghan Coleman and her team are currently working on a project with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to develop a sustainable sup-ply chain for nutritious foods to low income consumers in East Africa's slums. Accord-ing to Coleman, they are us-ing a model which provides a source of income for the unemployed youth in urban slums while also ensuring last-mile distribution and marketing of these valuable nutrition products.

“The hands-on experi-ence of developing a busi-ness model then going out and validating whether or not it will be work in the market (is the most valuable thing),” Coleman said. “I can now talk intelligently in business-terms about why a social opportunity is fi nan-cially sustainable.”

The GSSE program start-ed at CSU about fi ve years ago, when Hammerdorfer spent a year going to Africa to recruit students to come to CSU from Uganda, Ken-ya and South Africa. Ham-merdorfer visited a dozen universities and learned that they had an interest in entre-preneurship.

“It was a eureka mo-ment,” Hammerdorfer said. “Why bring Africans to Col-orado when you could just bring the program to Africa? The expense to bring 100

Africans to CSU is millions of dollars. To bring the pro-gram there, can get more re-sults for less money, which is what business is all about.”

GSSE established a sister program two years ago in Af-rica, Sustainable Enterprise MBAs for Africa (SEMBAA) through USIU. According to Hammerdorfer, the Afri-can students are able to use CSU’s resources, which pro-vide them with technology and opportunities.

“It is a semiotic relation-ship,” Hammerdorfer said. “Students get smart, motivat-ed African entrepreneurs and

that is important when doing business 10,000 miles away, but the African students get to us for resources, like ac-cess to our science research.”

As of now, the SEMBAA program has about 10 stu-dents, while GSSE has 50, but according to Hammer-dorfer, there is no pressure to grow in numbers for the future; they are happy with 25 to 50 students involved in the program.

“The GSSE communi-ty is hands-down the best part of this program,” Cole-man said. “I now have a network of intelligent and

action-oriented colleagues who are equally passionate about addressing the same global challenges that I am.”

“[I was] attracted to the market-based approach as years of work in the nonprof-it and international devel-opment sector has opened my eyes to how broken the current aid model is,” add-ed Coleman. “[The program is the] perfect blending of social and environmental sciences with hard business language, and small cohort size meant greater interac-tion with my colleagues and professors.”

To apply to the program, it is the same as a regular MBA, but they are not taking young students who haven’t been in the fi eld.

“This is really a foot in the door for the College of Business and the universi-ty to provide a high quality education,” Hammerdorf-er said. “It is a substantial growth opportunity to look at education as a path to-ward middle class stable life, and see the real growth op-portunities there.”

Collegian Writer Taylor Pettaway can be reached at [email protected].

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The New York Post ran a front page picture of a man about to get hit by the subway, accompanied with the words “DOOMED.” Don’t look up the photo. It is hardly worth giving the publication the satisfac-tion.

The shocking photo was run to get people’s attention, which hap-pened. But the response was some-thing the editors should have ex-pected: justifiable outrage.

Exploiting the last moments of a man’s life for no other purpose other than to increase pick-up rate is highly unethical, and should be condemned by everyone.

Media outlets across the coun-try spoke out about the disgusting sensationalization by the New York Post, but most outlets still showed the shocking front page, unable to

resist the temptation to sensation-alize the story themselves.

Too much blame has been placed

on the photographer who took the picture, many claiming that he

shirked his moral duty as a human being for snapping a photo rather than endeavoring to save the man.

The photographer can hardly be blamed, though, it being unlikely that even without taking the pho-to he’d have been able to save the man’s life.

Instead, the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the pa-per’s editors, whose charge it is to be the moral and ethical compass of the publication.

These editors, and the media at large, have to disconnect themselves from the flash and fizzle journalism that has turned the modern news-room into a media circus. The only news revealed by the New York Post with that cover was the depths the paper is willing to sink to increase their own readership.

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Every year that I have been at CSU, I have heard at least one story about an openly LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisex-ual, trans*, queer) freshman whose randomly assigned roommate backed out of living with them because of their sexuality or gender identity.

This is not exactly the most wel-coming way for a freshman to start out their semester at college. Colorado State takes pride in being an institu-tion that is inclusive of students from diverse backgrounds and identities, yet there is no residential living option that explicitly caters to the needs of students who may not feel comfortable having their housing assigned based on a male/female binary.

Universities across the country — ranging from Princeton to CU-Boulder — have implemented gender neutral housing options in their dorms. I believe that this is something that needs to be implemented at Colorado State as well.

A gender neutral hall in the dorms would be an excellent alternative for incoming students who are required to live on campus, but do not feel comfortable or safe in the traditional sex-binary housing assignment situa-tion that we currently have.

CSU already offers some diverse housing options and living communi-ties based on students’ interests.

The list of residential living com-munities listed on the Housing and Dining Services website is extensive and tailors to a wide range of different personal and academic interests: art,

engineering, equine sciences, interna-tional community, health and exercise science, honors, natural sciences, ac-ademics, community service, leader-ship and development, living green and substance-free living.

If you’re interested in any of those things and more, CSU offers a place where you can live and build commu-nity with other people who are interest-ed in the same things as you.

If you are interested in living in a hall where you are guaranteed accep-tance regardless of your gender identity or sexual orientation, on the other hand, there are no definite options available.

I do not mean to imply that peo-ple interested in horses or engineering deserve a dorm situation that allows them to build community any less than LGBTQ students — but the implica-tions of living with someone who does not accept your gender or sexuality is far more serious than the implications of living with someone who does not accept your interest in horses.

Given all of the diverse housing op-tions we already have it seems especial-ly bizarre and wrong that the university does not already offer a gender neutral living community.

A gender neutral housing option means that students who choose to live in these communities could live in the same room as students of the opposite birth sex.

This is not to say that it would be a place where all LGBTQ students are re-quired to live, nor would it be a place

that restricted to only LGBTQ-identify-ing students.

Instead it would be a great option to students who do not feel comfort-able living in the traditional dorm style and/or who are interested in building a community with their peers that is welcoming and inclusive of LGBTQ stu-dents and allies.

Discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is some-thing that faces the LGBTQ community on campus and in society as a whole — which is why related roommate-switch-es happen in the first place.

I think that a gender neutral hous-ing option is a great way to battle dis-crimination against LGBTQ students because it would guarantee a safe and supportive living environment, and it would guarantee a welcoming commu-nity for students. LGBTQ students and allies are already very active on cam-pus, and SOGLBT does amazing things and puts on inspiring events.

No student should be scared away from attending CSU and taking part in the great and supportive community that we have because of discriminatory housing.

Everybody deserves to feel com-fortable and safe with their on-campus living situation, and more inclusivity is something that CSU should strive for.

Tyanna Slobe is a senior English Language and Spanish double major. She can be reached at [email protected] or @TySlobe.

Because we do not know everything about everything in the world, people will tend to make up things in order to fill in the gap.

Think back to your mom explaining things to you af-ter asking “Why?” for the hundredth time over the thousandth thing. She prob-ably did not know the real answer, but made some-thing up to shut you up.

Because of this curious hu-man desire to appear all know-ing, we sometimes end up with information or perceptions that are totally incorrect.

A perfect example of this is something I witnessed last weekend while in Denver. A man was holding a sign outside of a mall that said something along the lines of “Remember what Christmas is about: Christ’s birthday — not the presents.”

While the morality of turn-ing the holidays into a capital venture is debatable, I was more fascinated by the fact that this man truly believed that Dec. 25th marked the birthday of the Christian Lord.

I wonder how many oth-er people out there believe the same thing, or have fall-en victim to other common misconceptions?

First, the whole Christ-mas thing was really an in-vention of the church to try and integrate previous tra-ditions of other cultures into fledging Christianity.

The act of gift giving had been practiced by the Ro-mans during a time called Saturnalia for hundreds of years before Christianity rose. And it was celebrated on — you guessed it — Dec. 25. There are numerous similar examples of other pagan traditions being fused into Christianity, either for Christmas or other holidays.

Furthermore, the idea that Christ was born on Dec. 25 has no true histor-ical basis. In the early years of Christianity there were many different days cele-brated, and each separate Christian group picked a day they liked most.

I understand that it’s more about the idea and spir-it of celebrating it than the ac-tual facts, but one should not confuse the two, nor should they ignore the truth.

Moving on, there are lots of other common miscon-ceptions that need to be dis-

pelled post haste. And you can check the facts by a quick Google search.

First, do not despair about going swimming right after you’ve just had a meal. There is no evi-dence to suggest that it will increase the chances that you will get muscle cramps. This is essential-ly an oldwives tale.

Another one that may tickle you is that we hu-mans have more than five senses. Everyone knows the five basic ones iden-tified by Aristotle, but there are others that for whatever reason are not as widely taught.

The true number is still debated by scientists as is exactly what a sense is; but senses such as be-ing able to sense relative temperature, body and limb position, and time are all other senses that people are capable of.

Next is one of my ab-solutely favorite mistak-en comments that people will make; which is that we only use about 10 per-cent of our brains.

To be fair it is true that only a relatively small percentage of our brains is actively firing at any given time, the non-ac-tive neurons in our brain are still important as well, for things like memory storage. Sadly, this mis-conception seems to be so rooted in our culture it is unlikely that it will be defeated anytime soon.

Finally, in case any-one that reads this ever has kids, bear in mind that giving kids sugar does not mean that they are all of a sudden going to be bouncing off the walls, at least there is no scientific reason for them to be.

Also, if your kids are ever just simply refusing to drink milk, maybe it is be-cause they are lactose in-tolerant — like the major-ity of people on the planet. That’s right — not being able to digest milk proper-ly in adulthood is a normal trait of human beings.

If a person wants to be taken seriously, they need to know the truth about things before they just spurt out incorrect albe-it common information. You’ll be taken more seri-ously if you know the truth.

And, if you want to just show off to someone, re-member Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line or the car, and Mac computers can definitely get viruses and malware.

Res Stecker is a junior international studies major. His columns appear Thurs-days in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

Whenever abortion is defend-ed, pregnancies from rape and in-cest are typically utilized to silence opposition. Thanks to misconcep-tions that these abortions are the norm, the tactic is often successful, wrongly painting “choice” as com-passion and unborn rights as op-pression of the raped.

Statistics paint another picture.According to the Guttmacher

Institute — a “pro-choice” group that “advances sexual and repro-ductive health and rights” – the total percentage of abortions linked to rape and incest was only 1.5 percent in 2004. The percent-age was the same back in 1987. (Reasons U.S. Women Have Abor-tions: Quantitative and Qualita-tive Perspectives (2005), http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/jour-

nals/3711005.html. These were the most recent, reliable statistics found.)

What does this mean? 98.5 per-cent of the time, women (and men) of America, you have choice. You control your bodies and when you get pregnant. What you really pur-sue is sex without responsibility, regardless of the cost to others.

To focus on the 1.5 percent for

that cause is to manipulate the suf-fering of raped women, treating them like objects instead of people. These human beings have been traumatically violated, and deserve honest help and compassion. Kill-ing their children doesn’t erase the brutality from history; it serves the goals of those who exploit these women for abortion revenues or who seek to defend the modern

misunderstanding of choice.My fellow students, we can’t

keep abusing the 1.5 percent as a catch-all defense for abortion. We have choice. We control our own destinies. Rather than complaining about responsibility and exploiting the suffering of others, we should embrace that power.

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The good news: Fed-eral Pell Grants will still be fully funded through the 2013-14 school year, so any reductions in the program wouldn’t occur until the 2014-15 school year.

The bad news: If se-questration is still in effect in 2014, then the Pell Grant program would get hit espe-cially hard, with a projected $6 to $9 billion shortfall the fi rst year.

Other programs impact-ed at CSU would be:

Federal work study de-crease from $923,000 to $847,314. That equates to about 31 jobs.

Federal Supplemen-tal Educational Opportu-nity Grant decrease from $632,000 to $580,176. This grant is used to supplement very low income freshmen aid packages.

Other programs admin-istered by the Access Cen-ter like TRIO and GEAR UP would also see an 8.2 per-cent cut.

Despite these cuts, Biedscheid said enrollment at CSU probably wouldn’t drop the first year, be-cause the Commitment to Colorado ensure access to Pell-eligible students. If there’s still sequestration after a year, lower-income students might have more difficulties in attending a public university.

“If Pell does take a hit, maintaining the Commit-ment to Colorado becomes diffi cult because any loss in federal funding to the Com-mitment to Colorado would have to be backed by insti-tutional money,” Biedscheid said. “So there is that long term concern.”

Cynthia Santos, a senior psychology and spanish double major, works 12 to 14 hours a week in her work study job at the RamCard Offi ce in the Lory Student

Center. She said the work study program is perfect be-cause her employers are un-derstanding of the stresses students have and are will-ing to accommodate them, like with fi nals week.

She said she works an-other job and sends money back home to help out her parents. She expressed con-cern about 31 work study positions being eliminated if an agreement isn’t reached.

“That would be so hard and stressful if they took that away from us,” Santos said. “They make it easier and give you more breaks than a regular job.”

Although it’s hard to gauge how much money CSU would lose from the federal government, the impact to research would be signifi cant, said Bill Far-land, the vice president of research at CSU.

Seventy-six percent of the $340 million in research funding CSU receives comes from the federal govern-ment. Farland estimated that the university would see research funding decrease by about $23.5 million, with the drop coming about a year after the fi scal cliff.

“That’s a pretty signif-icant impact if it were to come about,” Farland said.

The across-the-board cuts would mean all uni-versities and the feder-al agencies that support them with research funding would be hit hard by the cuts, meaning there would be signifi cantly less money for research and a marked increase in competition for the remaining federal re-search dollars.

“Our investigators have been very successful in terms of their ability to get funds in a tough budget cli-mate. This would be an addi-tional reduction of funding for competitive programs,” Farland said. “It would have an impact on our ability to

compete and garner those awards.”

Those awards, Farland said, support faculty sal-aries, research associates, graduate and post-doctoral researchers, among other things. Although he doubted faculty would be cut, there could be a “ripple” effect into other research infra-structure.

A few weeks ago, Far-land spent time with the members of the Colorado Congressional delegation and discussed the impor-tance of higher education and research to keep the country vibrant and com-petitive. They also talked about contingency plans in case the nation were to fall off the fi scal cliff and how to continue working with federal agencies to ensure funding.

“If we do see these kinds of potential reductions, we have to work with the agen-cies to try to protect the programs that are most im-portant to us,” Farland said. “Who knows if we’ll be suc-cessful. But we’ll certainly give that a try.”

Senior Reporter Austin Briggs and Student Life Beat Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at [email protected].

FISCAL | Federal Pell Grants could be cut for 2014-15

$22 MILLION out of $33.4 BILLION: The amount CSU students received in Pell Grants that were distributed nationally in the 2011-12 school year.$847,314 to $923,000: The amount that CSU’s Federal Work-Study would decrease. The $75,686 decrease equates to about 31 jobs.$580,176 to $632,000: The amount that the Federal Supplemental Educational Op-portunity Grant would decrease. This grant is used to supplement very low-income freshmen aid packages.

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“If we do see these kinds of potential reductions, we have to work with the agencies to try to protect the programs that

are most important to us. Who knows if we’ll be successful.”Bill Farland | vice president of research at CSU



By KEVIN RUBYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

With multiple brewing companies in Fort Collins, it is no secret to students at CSU that beer is a big deal in the city. New Belgium, Odell, Equinox, Cooper-smiths and Pateros Creek are just a few of the brewer-ies in the area.

That has sparked in-terests in many students at CSU to start brewing their own beer at home.

Students have learned to brew the old-fashioned way, but have also learned about brewing from a course called Brewing Science and Tech-nology (FTEC 460) at CSU.

The course teaches scien-tifi c and technical aspects of brewing, fermenting, fi nishing and evaluating microbrewed style of lagers and ales.

Luke Schwerdtfeger, Chris Holt and Michael Miller are a few of the many home brewing students at CSU.

Schwerdtfeger started brewing about two years ago in his home in Fort Col-lins. He learned to brew not from taking FTEC 460, but instead, from Tony Rau.

“A good friend of mine, Tony Rau, is an assistant brewer at Odell,” said the se-nior biological sciences ma-jor. “He was the TA (teaching assistant) for the brewing sciences class at the time and he said, ‘Hey man, we’re home brewing this weekend, do you want to come?”’and I said ‘sure’ and the rest is his-tory.”

Schwerdtfeger learned from Rau by sitting down with him and learning it step by step.

“He literally sat me down … and just said here’s what we’re doing … this the chem-istry behind it,” Schwerdt-feger said. “This is what we’re doing and that’s how it

works. It’s pretty easy to pick up.”

Holt later came in six months ago to brew with Schwardtfeger and then Miller.

“The fi rst time I home brewed was with Luke about a week ago,” said the senior

biomedical sciences major. “I took the class expect-

ing it to be kind of a home brew class but it was all about the industrial side, which was great because it taught me all about the chemistry and all the stuff behind it. So whenever I brewed with

Luke … I knew exactly what he was talking about and so it was more direct and really easy to pick up.”

Each brew day takes about three-and-a-half to fi ve hours depending on how quick you are doing it or how rushed you are,

Schwerdtfeger said.“From the point of start-

ing it (a brew) to drinking a fi nished beer is rough-ly about four weeks,” Schwerdtfeger said.

They have no plans to start a brewing company in the future, but instead are

concentrating on their stud-ies.

New Belgium and Odell brewing companies both have their roots as home brewed beer.

Collegian Writer Kev-in Ruby can be reached at [email protected].

Brewing the old fashioned way: in your living room

CSU senior Michael Miller cleans a tub used to help ferment beer. Miller and several other CSU students have began to brew their own beer. NICK LYON | COLLEGIAN

“From the point of starting it (a brew) to drinking a � nished beer is roughly about four weeks.”Luke Schwerdtfeger | senior biological sciences major and home-brewer

Graduates...Look for the Fall 2012 Graduation Edition honoring You in Monday’s Collegian

By CHRIS BARTONThe McClatchy Tribune

LOS ANGELES—When thinking about Dave Bru-beck, you can’t help but also consider time, which is ulti-mately the foundation of any form of music. Although jazz primarily swung through a 4/4 rhythm, Brubeck ex-panded the music’s palette and became one of the true giants of the genre for look-ing outside of the genre’s infl uences to that point and carving into someplace new.

Part of the reason is “Time Out,” the aptly named 1959 recording that stands with Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” Charles Mingus’ “Mingus Ah Um” and Or-nette Coleman’s “Shape of Jazz to Come” as a ground-breaking album during a pivotal year in the evolution of jazz. Where Davis ex-plored modal structures and Coleman blazed into a new world of saxophone, Bru-beck was equally inventive for his experimentation with jazz’s heartbeat.

Written by Brubeck’s saxophonist Paul Desmond, the immediately recogniz-able “Take Five” was in 5/4; “Blue Rondo a la Turk” — a song inspired by Turkish folk music Brubeck heard while on State Department-spon-sored tour — shifts between 9/8 and 4/4; and the whole album continues the theme, shifting between waltz, dou-ble waltz and straight time

with impossible ease.To casual music listen-

ers, such information can look like a fractions exam, but these songs upended the idea of what a jazz song could do. Despite funda-mental structure changes (most jazz ticks along at 4/4), Brubeck still swung, and beautifully so.

Even at Brubeck’s most inventive, he remained ap-proachable. “Blue Rondo a la Turk” might have drawn a line in the sand as an album open-er with its stuttering, almost manically paced beginning, but the song hardly sounds jagged as it gives way to a more familiar, blues-oriented section. The approach was new but never unwelcoming.

The proof is in the al-bum’s reception. Although Brubeck’s label Columbia feared he might have gone too far out, the record be-came one of the bestselling jazz recordings of all time, peaking at No. 2 on the Bill-board pop charts, and “Take Five” became a Top 40 single.

The song’s appeal en-dures, having even appeared in an otherwise blandly ele-gant TV commercial for a Jap-anese luxury sedan in the ’90s. The ad might not have sold a lot of cars, but it inspired many to go record shopping (this writer included).

Of course, with a life that found Brubeck performing high profi le gigs well into this century — including a recent run of shows cele-

brating his 90th birthday—it’s diffi cult to summarize his impact and appeal in the context of one album.

A titan of West Coast jazz, Brubeck was linked with California for much of his career. He was born in Concord, studied at what is now is the University of the Pacifi c in Stockton and even-tually recorded for Berke-ley-based Fantasy Records, which helped forge the Bay Area’s sound in the ’50s. But regardless of where a lis-tener was based, the Dave Brubeck catalog was an in-evitable destination. If you wanted to get to know jazz or play jazz piano, you had to know Brubeck.

His reputation was es-tablished years before as he became only the second jazz artist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1954 (though Brubeck questioned the honor and was reported to have said he thought Duke Ellington was more deserving). Brubeck continued to further explore exotic meters with his “Time Out” quartet until 1967.

A live recording from one of the band’s last dates, “Their Last Time Out,” was released in 2011 and still shows the pianist full of in-vention before shifting focus to composing more orches-tral pieces. But Brubeck re-mains most memorable for his timing, and over such a long, fertile career it always seemed right.

Brubeck made the most of his time

In this July 21, 2009 fi le photograph,

jazz composer Dave Brubeck performs live

during ‘An Evening of

Performance and Conver-

sation;’ at the Apple Store

Soho in New York City. (Photo by

Dennis Van | McClatchy

Tribune)

By MICHAEL MUSKALThe McClatchy Tribune

LOS ANGELES — Those of you who take everything that the U.S. government says and does with a large grain of salt, be afraid, be very afraid, because the government has now made it offi cial that the world will not end this month.

In a blog post on its of-fi cial portal, the U.S. gov-ernment dismisses reports of the coming end of the world, predicted by the Mayan calendar this month.

“Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors,” the gov-ernment reassures its cit-izens and presumably the rest of the world as well, be-cause in the Marshall Mc-Luhanesque sense, we are indeed all in this together.

Reports of the immi-nent demise of the planet are based on the Mayan prophecy of the end of time

when the current calendar expires. In some popular interpretations by dooms-day adherents — fed in part by the usually reliable Hollywood blockbuster — the expiration signals the end of time, hence the de-struction of the world. How the world will end is a little vague but a collision with a comet or a planet is among the favored exit strategies.

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it is. Destruction by comet is a favored trope seen when one of those heavenly ice balls fall toward Earth from the depths at the edge of the solar system.

NASA has recently reas-sured everyone that neither of those celestial catastro-phes is in the immediate works. NASA released a vid-eo earlier this year explain-ing why the Mayan calendar doesn’t accurately predict the apocalypse. Common sense dictates that when one calendar runs out, you

just fl ip the page and start a new cycle, which was likely the Mayan response.

“False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won’t), a comet causing catastroph-ic effects (defi nitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others,” the post on the U.S. govern-ment’s website notes.

“The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any day in 2012,” it says de-fi nitively, begging the ques-tion of just how accurate most of the government’s predictions really are. While most people will accept the government reassur-ance, there are always some who will never agree. Just think back to the Y2K fears and the survivalist boom it spawned.

US insists world will not end this monthThe Rocky Mountain Collegian | Thursday, December 6, 2012 7

By Kyle GraBowsKi The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Digging early holes and being unable to climb out of them has become a habit for the CSU women’s basketball team.

The Rams lost 72-46 at CU-Boulder Wednesday evening after falling behind by double digit points just over five minutes into the first half.

“We felt like we had had to come out early. It’s CSU: our rivalry game. They could play their best game or come in here and play their worst game,” CU guard Brittany Wilson said. “If we didn't punch them in the mouth, they’d try to punch us first.”

CSU provided little of-fensive punch throughout the entire game outside of Sam Martin and Caitlin Duffy, who scored 16 points and 19 points respectively.

The rest of the team scored 21 total and the Rams shot 28.6 percent from the field for the game after being constantly pushed outside by CU’s defense.

“It’s really hard to go back and play defense time after time after time when you’re that far away from the basket,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “It’s a frustrat-ing thing.”

CU’s size and aggressive-ness on the boards bothered the Rams all night. The Buffs out-rebounded CSU 59-26 and blocked seven shots.

The Rams missed senior Megan Heimstra, who usu-ally provides determination and grit in the paint.

“There were times we needed to compete better on the glass tonight and that’s a disappointment. You have to be willing to go to war in there,” Williams said.

CU lead 37-17 at half-time after holding the Rams to 25 percent shooting from the floor and 11 percent from behind the three point line.

The Buffs took a 10-4 lead with 16:08 remaining in the first half then went on a 12-2 run to extend the mar-gin to 16.

CU bolstered its excel-lent field goal percentage defense in the opening frame by not fouling.

The Buffs didn’t commit their first team foul until there was 8:28 remaining in the first half and only fouled twice in the opening period.

CSU’s biggest positive and improvement from past games was the fact that the team only turned the ball over nine times.

The loss was CSU's fourth straight and dropped the

Rams to 2-5 on the season. CU, on the other hand, extended its season-opening winning streak to seven games.

CSU will continue its

string of road games Satur-day when they travel to Tulsa to take on the Golden Hurri-cane at 1:30 p.m.

“We can sit around and

mope because we lost to CU because it does stink, but we have another game on Sat-urday that we want to win,” Duffy said. “We are growing,

we really are.”Assistant Sports Edi-

tor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at [email protected].


Colorado State forward Kara Spotton (20) attempts to steal the ball from Colorado’s Lexy Kresl during the first half of last nights game in Boulder. The Lady Rams fell short to the Buffs 72-46.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ––7 –– Your logic spreads. Rise to the occasion. You may respectfully disagree with an opinionated person. Pay back a favor, after paying bills. Cel-ebrate an attractive person’s loyalty.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––9 –– Someone has a great idea about renovating your home. Consider options private-ly. You have the skills required. Continue to check off the list. If traveling, consider comfort fi rst.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––8 –– Confer with your team. Postpone travel for now... stay with the group. You get more if you act quickly. Others fi nd you fascinating. Enlist help with subtle bribes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––7 –– Simplify matters. A crazy scheme could work, but don’t start a new project yet. Physical effort helps clarify your thinking. Love hits you like a feather. Disrupt the status quo.


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