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Thursday, September 10, 2015 Volume 124, No. 22 • collegian.com NEWS Cycling Adjustments to Oval streets will make the road more biker friendly PAGE 14 Fraternity removes flag after complaints OPINION The flag, as seen from outside the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house.SUBMITED PHOTO Free the nipple Phi Kappa Tau removes Columnist confederate-looking flag, argues against the ‘Free fraternity responds the Nipple’ By Collegian Sta The flag is no longer visible campaign from the outside of the house. Phi Kappa Tau’s Colorado According to a fraternity PAGE 6 State University chapter re- statement, students often dis- ceived complaints about a con- play state flags “as a reminder of federate flag hanging in a win- their homes or special individu- dow of its house — fraternity als in their lives.” A&E members claim the flag was not “Recently, one of our broth- a confederate flag, but a South ers displayed in his window a Rendering of an alternative South Carolina flag that the farternity cal- Carolina flag that displayed sim- single flag he had received as imed to have displayed. PROVIDED BY THE PHI KAPPA TAU PRESIDENT Roastin’ with ilar symbols. a gift from his graduating best “The Division of Student friend who hailed from South ther controversy and promptly of whether it was an ocial con- Rick A airs notified the fraternity Carolina. The flag, in a simul- removed the flag — which had federate flag or not, the action Rick reviews that it had received complaints taneous acknowledgment of been hung without even a trace was still o ensive. about the appearance of the history and embrace of moder- of ill will — for good.” “I found that his decision sativa flag, and worked with both local nity, combines both the cur- Irene Vernon, chair of the to only display the confederate members and the national or- rent South Carolina ‘Palmetto ethnic studies department, portion of the flag was inten- hybrid ganization to ensure there was State’ flag and a historic ‘stars sent an e-mail to all CSU ethnic tional and meant to o end,” Super a realization that the flag did and bars’ flag,” the statement studies majors and minors with Vernon said in an e-mail to the o end members of the commu- said. “Despite the fact that the a photo of the flag attached, de- Collegian. Lemon nity,” according to a University flag did not represent a breach nouncing the “use of the confed- In March, Phi Kappa Tau Haze statement. “The flag was taken of any CSU policy, Colorado law erate flag in the window of their received backlash after rees- down in part as a result of that or Fort Collins ordinance, the house.” tablishing the fraternity at the PAGE 16 notification.” members chose to avoid fur- Vernon said that regardless see FLAG on page 8 >> 2 Thursday, September 10, 2015 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian collegian.com FORT COLLINS FOCUS ON THE OVAL No. 14 CSU volleyball’s Culbert named candidate for 2015 Senior CLASS Award The honors just keep add- ing up for senior hitter/setter Adrianna Culbert. First, she was named the Mountain West Preseason Player of the Year. Next, she earned MW Player of the Week after her first slate of games. Wednesday, she was named one of the 30 women’s volleyball candidates for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award, which is given to students-ath- letes who are excelling both on and o the court. To be eligible to receive the award, Lois Winegarner is a volunteer at Ten Thousand Village — a local fair trade company that allows artisans student-athletes must classify and familes in developing countries earn money by hand crafting a unique assortment of home decor, art as an NCAA Division I senior, jewelery and other global treasures. PHOTO BY KATE KNAPP COLLEGIAN and have notable achieve- ments in four areas: commu- nity, classroom, character and competition. Culbert was named a MW KCSU SCHEDULE Scholar-Athlete in 2012 and 2013, and was also named to Jackson the Academic All-MW team Hindman THURSDAY both of those years. DJ Profile LISTEN ONLINE AT KCSUFM.COM She serves on the exec- utive board of CSU’s Stu- 7:00 AM J. Schway: Rise ‘n Jive dent-Athlete Advisory Com- mittee, and is also a founding With a new theme every week, DJ member of “Rambition,” a Jackson Hindman tries to expose his au- movement to get people more 9:00 AM Squid: Squid Pro Quo dience to diverse music on his 7 to 9 p.m. involved at CSU and in the Thursday show “Jukebox Time Machine.” community. “Last week my theme was summer, DLauren:Motivation As far as competition goes, 11:00 AM so I played the Beach Boys, for example,” Station Culbert has that part covered Hindman said. “I try to jump around in easily. The two-time honor- time periods and genres.” DJ Nisty: Dj Nisty’ able mention All-American 1:00 PM The senior communications major total request show posted her second triple-dou- has been a DJ for three years. He says his ble of the season Tuesday love for music motivates him to continue against Northern Colorado, DJ Mimi: The Weekly working for KCSU. 3:00 PM making her the fifth CSU “For whatever reason, I really enjoy Sound with Mimi player to accomplish the feat introducing people to music,” Hindman multiple times in a season, and said. “I try to get a grasp of my friend’s 5:00 PM Ramblers (sports) the first to do it in just 3-set music tastes and give them suggestions. I matches. like to find what’s good and share it with The field of 30 candidates people.” Captain Jack: for the 2015 Senior CLASS After graduating, the Colorado native 7:00 PM Jukebox Time Machine Award will be narrowed to 10 hopes to pursue a career in the music in- finalists midway through the dustry. He hopes his audience will find season. The winner will be music that they love. 9:00 PM Demo announced during the 2015 “I would say that it doesn’t matter if NCAA Division I Women’s you listen to the show or not, just listen Volleyball Championship in to music and listen to it well,” Hindman December. said. “Find music that you enjoy.” Follow Follow collegiancentral CSU Collegian on Instagram on Snapchat Collegian Sports Re- Collegian A&E editor Hannah Ditzen- porter Emmett McCarthy berger can be reached at entertainment@ Follow Like Collegian can be reached at sports@ collegian.com or on Twitter at @h_ditzen- @CollegianC Central on collegian.com and on twitter berger. on Twitter Facebook @emccarthy22. 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N NEWS Thursday, September 10, 2015 • Page 3 Electronic cigarettes can be a gateway to other tobacco products, according to CSU professor’s study By Savannah Hoag The survey, part of the using electronic cigarettes, so @savvie_wavvie Health and Happiness study in- the electronic cigarettes ap- Electronic cigarettes, more volving about 3,300 9th-grade pear to be a gateway for more commonly known as vaporiz- students in southern Califor- dangerous forms of tobacco ers, are becoming increasingly nia, questioned them about use,” Riggs said. “Even though popular on high school and col- topics including substance use, these electronics do not have lege campuses throughout the mental health and social com- as many carcinogens, can- country. petence, Riggs told the Colle- cer-causing chemicals, as reg- Nathaniel Riggs, an asso- gian. ular tobacco products, they ciate professor in the Depart- “One of the reasons why still contain nicotine, which ment of Human Development we’re really interested in ado- causes the addiction to, in this and Family Studies, aided in a lescents is because the adoles- case, these electronic ciga- survey focusing on the correla- cent brain is still continuing to rettes.” tion between the use of elec- develop in the areas that are Many students and ado- tronic cigarettes and the use really important for addiction,” lescents are unaware of the of other tobacco-related prod- Riggs said.