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Rams fall to Aztecs, second loss on road trip for women’s basketball | Pa g e 5 Pa g e 5 Pa g e 8 CSU student goes Men’s basketball overseas for ghost hunting couldn’t find the magic in Moby “Ghost Hunters International” next step after “Ghost Hunters Academy” SDSU beats CSU 64-52 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 118 | No. 95 Monday, February 1, 2010 COLLEGIAN www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 Black history Month comes RESTING IN PEACE to CSU campus By david Martinez The Rocky Mountain Collegian In 1926, a noted African American historian named Carter Woodson started what is now called Black His- tory Month, which kicks off today nationwide. To celebrate this year, the CSU community has sponsored several events to celebrate America’s Black history. Here is a list of events at CSU. Visit Collegian. com for a complete list of events and a brief timeline of significant moments in Black history. BlacK history Month events at CSU feB. 3 Opening Ceremony Proclamation by Fort Collins Mayor Doug Hutchinson Noon, LSC Commons feB. 5 BHM Movie of the Week: “Rosewood” Noon, Rm 204, LSC feB. 8 Theatrical Play, “Auction Block to Hip-Hop” 7 p.m., LSC Theatre feB. 9 Opening Keynote Speaker Bruce George, co-founder/creator of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam 7 p.m., Cherokee Ballroom, LSC feB. 12 BHM Movie of the Week: “Love Jones” Noon, Rm 204, LSC COLLEGIAN file Photo feB. 15 Census 2010 Dan Lyons, also known as the “read all about it” guy, is taking a break from yelling on the plaza after three years 7 p.m., Clark Building, C-144 until the 2006 elections. Lyons is an anti-war activist and retired CSU philosophy professor. feB. 17 Panel Discussion on “Good Hair” Noon, Rm 220-222, LSC CSU professor, protestor dies at 79 feB. 19 By Matt Miller and ethics courses at CSU, Lyons The Rocky Mountain Collegian retired in 2001 and became a fixture aBout dan lyons BHM Movie of the Week: “4 Little Girls” on the Plaza by campaigning for the Noon, Rm 204, LSC Between the years of 2001 and peace movement. Who: Dan Lyons, former CSU 2004, a man sat in a lawn chair in the For three years, his protests professor and peace activist feB. 24 Lory Student Center Plaza handing opened conversation among the stu- Born: Sept. 1, 1930 in Cresco, Iowa Closing Keynote Speaker Regina E. Mason, out pamphlets. Those who passed dents and faculty at CSU and fueled recognized his white fishermen’s a debate about free speech on cam- Died: Wednesday in his home Co-Author of “Life of William Grimes, the at age 79 hat and his calls for peace but didn’t pus. Runaway Slave” Taught: 34 years of logic and 6 p.m., West Ballroom, LSC know that this protestor was a veter- “As a philosopher he felt he had ethics an, a monk and a philosopher. the duty not to just write articles that Retired: in 2001 feB. 26 Dan Lyons, peace activist and no one reads, but to go out and do Military service: 1951 to 1953 BHM Movie of the Week: “Selma, Lord, former CSU professor, died in his something,” philosophy professor served in the United States Army Selma” home Wednesday at the age of 79. in Korea Noon, Rm 204, LSC After 34 years of teaching logic See lyons on Page 3 Braiden renovation offers Final candidate to interview sustainable dining experience for provost today on campus By Katelyn McnaMara The Rocky Mountain Collegian Rick Miranda plans to improve retention, increase diversity While students and faculty members were By Kirsten silveira Heightening the “perception and wrapping up their winter breaks, developers The Rocky Mountain Collegian reality” of CSU’s partnerships with vari- were putting the final touches on CSU’s $3.8 ous communities and industries, and million renovation project in the Braiden Hall Interim Provost Rick Miranda has Reaching the next level of research Dining Center. been a part of the CSU community for and excellence. The motivation behind the improvement more than 20 years and said, to him, it’s After getting his Ph.D. from Massa- project was to modernize and expand the fa- important to have a bit of fun chusetts Institute of Technol- cility to feed more students and CSU commu- every day, if not every hour. ogy, Miranda took a position nity members and to create an inviting dining Interviewing today as one in the Math Department at experience, Housing and Dining Service offi- of the three final candidates for CSU in 1982. Miranda has cials said. the position of provost and ex- also served as dean of the Before the renovation, Braiden Dining Photo courtesy of Paul BroKering ecutive vice president, Miran- College of Natural Sciences Center served anywhere between 700 and 900 decorative accents allow for visitors to forget da said, as an administrative and said if he doesn’t get the people each meal due to its central location on that they’re in a college dining center, HDS of- professional, it’s important to job of provost he will resume campus. Though numbers are not exact, quite ficials said. instill the can-do, why-not at- that duty. a few more people per meal can be served With a menu rotation for each meal, titude in all people you come Miranda, who has been now, officials said. students will now have about three to four into contact with. interim provost and execu- “It was doing far more business than it was choices for each breakfast, lunch and dinner. With this way of thinking, Miranda tive vice president since 2008, designed to do,” said Deon Lategan, the direc- Before, students had about one to two choices Miranda, with the help of the is the last candidate to have tor of Residential Dining Services. for main entrees. university president and his an on-campus interview. An The dining center, which had only under- “The menus vary and rotate each day,” cabinet, deans and faculty, said he hopes open forum will be held today in the gone minor renovations since its establish- said Rick Pott, who works in Facility Planning to facilitate a series of changes that he Lory Student Center Cherokee room ment, was completely gutted from the front and Project Support for Housing and Dining sees coming: and is open to the public. seating area to the back of the house kitchens. Services. Improving retention, graduation If he assumes the position, Miranda The expansion will address the seating issues An online ordering system is in the works rates and post-graduation placement, will preside over all of CSU’s academic as well as increasing the kitchen freezer space as well. Students will soon be able to login on- Increasing diversity to better repre- programs, chair the Council of Deans, and storage area. line, view the menus and different options and sent the state of Colorado, serve as a non-voting member of the When walking in to the new quarters, vi- order food for pickup upon arrival. Ensuring higher levels of hands-on Faculty Council and sit on CSU Presi- brant and bold colors: blues, greens, yellows “We also used this as an opportunity to learning for students, dent Tony Frank’s cabinet. and reds catch the eye. The lighting allows Implementing funding methods to for a modern feel while the countertops and See dining on Page 3 increase growth of academic programs, See Provost on Page 3 2 Monday, February 1, 2010 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian Thinking about buying your WEATHER CALENDAR fi rst home and don’t know CAMPUS EYE Today where to begin? Tired of Today Beginning Web Design paying rent? Learn how to Short Course buy a house! Announcing the “First-time homebuyers: You partly cloudy 6:10 p.m. can do it!” class sponsored by Clark, Room 235 Off-Campus Life. Topics of the 44 | 19 This short course will serve class include: how to fi nd the as an intro to the creation of right realtor, why real estate web documents using web is an excellent personal invest- Tuesday standards. Topics covered are ment, how realtors can fi nd mostly sunny basic HMTL coding, effective the home to meet your needs, use of style sheets (CSS), how to talk with a lender, in- appropriate use of images and spector and realtor, appraisals 45 | 23 multimedia, image prepara- and inspections, conventional, tion, multimedia elements. FHA, VA and other loan down Requirements: must be a CSU payment fi nancing. Wednesday student and have basic profi - Virtuoso Concert with ciency with Photoshop. partly cloudy Special Guest Larry Graham, Piano Virtuoso Series Concert 7:30 p.m. 45 | 25 features Jeri Jorgensen, Griffi n Concert Hall, University Violin Center for the Arts 7:30 p.m. Pianist Larry Graham’s superb Organ Recital, University performances have garnered Center for the Arts acclaim on both sides of the CAMPUS CALENDAR Virtuoso Series Concert Spe- Atlantic. As a competitor, he was the top-ranking American To submit calendar cial Guest Jeri Jorgensen, Vio- lin. Jeri Jorgensen, violin, and in both the Queen Elizabeth entries go to http:// Cullan Bryant, piano, perform Concours in Brussels, and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition collegian.com/ a recital featuring sonatas campuscalendar. in Tel-Aviv, as well as First by Beethoven, Britten, and Prize at the McMahan interna- Strauss. Jorgensen is a pro- tional Music Competition.Con- fessor of violin and chamber cert is followed by a “Meet the music at the Lamont School of Artist” Reception.

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