Tapir Your Excitement

OCTOBER 9, 2015 THE CATALYST THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF COLORADO COLLEGE NEWS 2 Opinion 7 SPORTS 9 LIFE 13 FRIDAY WEEK 3 BLOCK 2 WOMEN’S THE GUN SHIFT THRIFT VOL. 46 CONTROL RUGBY OFF TO OPENS ISSUE BLISTERING 4-0 DOWNTOWN NO. 6 START CATALYSTNEWSPAPER.COM MORE: Page 8 MORE: MORE: Page 17 Illustration by Julian Plaza Photo courtesy of Naya Herman Page 14 Photo by Phillip Engh Photo by Arden Feldman The giraffes at Madelyn Santa sits Cheyenne Mountain down with TouchIt, Zoo will meet new friends with the who plans to bring a introduction of tapirs, mix of old favorites elephants, and and original songs leopards. to Alumapalooza on Saturday. MORE: Page 5 TAPIR YOUR SAFE PLACE: EXCITEMENT The Catalyst takes an ZOO: Page 17 in-depth look at the controversial issue of safe spaces at CC and A new way to apply to Colorado College at colleges across the ANNIE ENGEN Guest Writer soon by joining forces with 82 other the application process will be less country. colleges and universities in the Co- stressful if future students are ex- Most Colorado College students re- alition for Access, Affordability, and posed to it well before they actually member the stressful months leading Success. apply to schools. The Coalition’s new up to the college application deadline, The Coalition, which includes the application process will enable its a time of “I didn’t know I needed two likes of Harvard, Stanford, and Wash- users to build lists of extracurricular MORE: Page 2 teacher recommendation letters!” ington University in St. Louis, aims to activities, essays, and other applica- and “I can’t go out on Saturday—I still create a platform of online tools in- tion materials starting in the ninth need to cut 103 words out of my col- tended to streamline the college ap- grade. lege essay.” “One drawback of the current Com- LIFE: and make them easier to navigate. the process a little less traumatic very plicationCoalition and members �inancial aidbelieve processes that COALITION: Page 7 However, CC of�icials hope to make Film columnist Tom Crandall reviews the Questions of Honnen Arena’s nancial stability movie “Martian”: Is it EMMA MARTIN out of this world, or Staff Writer and women who keep it running. exander prefers to spend her day learning the names and skate sizes does it fall ﬂ at before The Honnen Ice Arena was built arena has remained an “on-and-off” of students and community mem- in 1963 due to the generosity of the conversationThe �inancial since sustainability its opening, of theac- bers who visit the arena, rather than liftoff? Edward H. Honnen family of Denver; cording to Arena Manager Linda Al- however, for the last half century, the exander. Recently, the Honnen staff tom lines. MORE: Page 18 arena has been the gift that keeps on was tasked with increasing actual laboringWith increased over facts, scrutiny �igures, overand bot-the costing. The college subsidizes the cash revenue in order to justify the building, paying for maintenance, existence of the ice rink. however, Alexander and her staff utilities, and the salaries of the men Honnen Arena Manager Linda Al- �inancial sustainability of the rink, @catalystnews HONNEN: Page 6 2 NEWS OCTOBER 9, 2015 FEATURED Safe Spaces: A necessity on college campuses or a case LIZ FORSTER Editor-in-Chief CANDELARIA ALCAT News Editor Since the implementation of President Addressing the conversation GOALS OF COLORADO COLLEGE’S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT Jill Tiefenthaler’s strategic plan in 2013, of hyper-sensitivity? Colorado College has actively committed ▶ ▶ Create a campus community that is broadly accessible to individuals of itself to promoting a more diverse and diverse backgrounds, experiences, and aspirations. We will identify and draw inclusive campus. gerWith warnings,” words likeand “politicallythe like more correct,” and on the talents and promise of local, national and global populations in our admission of students and our hiring of faculty and staff. In November 2014, as a part of this more“safe spaces,”frequently “micro-aggressions,” surfacing on campus, “trig- ▶ ▶ Foster an equitable intellectual and social climate that is inclusive, and sity Commitment,” which had previously respectful of human dignity. We acknowledge that categories of difference goal, the college released its �inal “Diver- tinuequestions to hinder of just the college’show inclusive values. in prac- mitment documents. tice CC and its students really are con- been divided into three individual com- sationsare �luid in and which not individuals necessarily from �ixed. all We walks respect of life individual are able rights and eagerto self-identi- to fully The statement reads that the college’s tive and productive, some negative and participate.�ication and expression, and we encourage activities, gatherings, and conver- Some of the dialogue has been posi- ▶ ▶ goal is to create a “fruitful climate for and projects. We will provide resources and space for distinctive projects that itypolarizing. of the root The of latterthe conversation. is oftentimes per- intellectual and scholarly growth, mean- furtherPromote our diversity full engagement goals and ourin courses, shared interestscurricula, and co-curr ideals.icular programs, deavors.” It continues on to explain that ceivedMost ascommonly, aggressive the due ‘minority’ to the ambigu-in the ingful interaction, and common en- successful liberal arts institutions must conversation can feel attacked because value diversity and inclusion. ognition the general public has for those discourse. differences.of their differences The voice and of the lack‘majority’ of rec- So far, the college has some data to also can feel attacked due to their sheer criedan op-ed safe spacesby contributing on college campuses,writer Judith croggressions in colleges are as extreme present to students, parents, alumni, lack of information. Shulevitz in March, 2015. The article de-asNot that all at examples Brown, but of safethey spaces might haveand mi- the prospective students, and the public dents from any potentially disconcerting same, or at least similar, implications. concerning its advancement towards a calling in,” said Slocum Residential Life viewpoints.arguing that safe spaces shielded stu- more diverse campus. For example, in “There’s this idea of calling out versus Shulevitz used an example from Brown theAccording American to GregMind” Lukianoff published and in Jona- The siveCoordinator and creating Krystal this Schiffelbein. culture of “I‘You can tion, albeit a drastically different culture than Haidt’s articlee “The Coddling of 2014, 24.7 percent of students identi- opposed to the 14.3 percent in 2004. didsee thisthe wrongconversations and you’re as a beingbad person.’ aggres- thanUniversity, CC. Brown a fellow hosted liberal a debate arts institu- about �ied as American ethnic minorities as But what about the inclusion aspect Sometimes that’s the initial reaction campus sexual assault between Jessica forniaAtlantic system in Sept. schools 2015, were deans presented and depart- by of anger and exhaustion that builds up Valenti, the founder of feministing.com, ment chairs at the 10 University of Cali- enacted hard policies and promoted a after someone’s gender, for example, of this commitment? Has CC effectively nists.net. gressions.administrators at faculty-leader-train- frustrating for that person.” and Wendy McElroy, the editor of ifemi- ing sessions with examples of mircroag- schoolcommunity have thatto indicate breeds itsa progress,culture of if in-isSince misidenti�ied joining the day CC aftercommunity day, whichthis is clusion? If so, what sort of data does the duringMcElroy the wasdebate, predicted prompting to criticize students the The list included “I believe the most not, where is CC now, and how can it get and Campus Activities Yolany Gonell has toterm organize “rape aculture” safe space in forher anyone arguments who thequali�ied land of person opportunity.” should get the job” and they can do so in a quantitative way? Ifyear, the new Director of Residential Life even colloquial phrases like “America is clusion. dents adorned a room nearby the debate overwhelming sensitivity of students there? actively pursued the advancement of in- withfound plates the debateof cookies, too coloringunsettling. books, Stu- andLukianoff the colleges’ and Haidt willingness argue tothat adapt the What is the role of Title IX? and an advocate in social justice issues to that sensitivity improperly prepares that“The I’m bottom proximate line isto, that, I need as a todirector work lows, blankets, and a video of frolicking to align the university and its values puppies;bubbles, studentsPlay-Doh, trained calming to dealmusic, with pil- mote engendered patterns of thought around diversity and inclusion,” said trauma were available for consolation. thatstudents parallel for thoseprofessional of depression life, can andpro- mustUnder adhere U.S. tolaw, the all Title institutions IX statute, that which receive �inancial assistance from the USDE which dismisses any negative detail in a shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded loveGonell, about who community identi�ies and as diversity a queer and Latino thatMcElroy students primarily have begun blamed holding students their situation.anxiety, and promotes mental �iltering, states: “No person in the United States putswoman. it into “It practice.” takes us from the talk thatcollege’sfor we the in�lux accountable of such for spaces, ensuring arguing such Gonell stresses the importance of underfrom participation any education in, program be denied or activity the ben- tion of this, she says, is that every other e�its of, or be subjected to discriminationposed to assimilation, in order to ensure spacespaces is andunsafe sensitivity. and that studentsThe implica- will So, where does CC �it in? Institutions across the country falling alignment and transformation, as op- underreceiving this Federal statute �inancial must thereby assistance.” operate stantialthat students portion receive of this the alignment,dignity and shere- headwinds.”not be prepared for climates off-campus the lines of Maltz Bovy.

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