NEWS OPINION SPORTS RHA VOTES ON SERVICE ANIMALS ARE NOT HANNAH TVRDY‘S JOURNEY TO WATERBOTTLES SUPPORT ANIMALS THE BRIGHT LIGHTS Vol. 127, No. 102 Tuesday, February 27, 2018 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 14 White supremacist posters found on campus By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn Posters affiliated with the white supremacist group, Identity Evropa, were posted in a Colorado State University academic building Monday morning. The posters were promptly removed in accordance with University policy. The posters were reported in Clark C, according to Dell Rae Ciaravola, vice president of operations for CSU’s Public Saftey team. At least six posters were found initially. There were at least three posters with different messages: “Our Generation Our Future Our Last Chance,” “Action Leadership Identity” and “Your Professor is Scared of This Book,” with an image of the book, “White Identity.” CSU’s Public Safety team issued an alert for a bias-motivated incident at 1:45 p.m. The alert described the flyers explicitly as related to a “white supremacist group.” “Flyers related to an extremist white supremacist hate group were posted without authorization on campus and have HeadEustachy Coach Larry Eustachy yells towards the court during a game against Northwestern resigns State on Nov. 24. PHOTO BY JAVON HARRIS COLLEGIAN been removed,” the alert stated. “The sentiments expressed are deeply offensive and do not reflect the values and character of the Head coach, University settle after investigation CSU community.” By Colin Barnard Identity Evropa describes @ColinBarnard_ will receive the remainder opportunities beyond his extended in 2016, laid out themselves as “a generation of of his salary this year as well tenure at CSU.” specifics for termination of awakened Europeans who have as a $750,000 settlement, The dismissal comes in the contract from both sides. discovered that we are part of After nearly a month- divided into three payments of light of Eustachy violating Had the university terminated the great peoples, history and long climate assessment of $250,000 through 2019. a zero-tolerance policy put the contract without cause, civilization that flowed from the the Colorado State men’s “I am grateful for the in place during the 2013- it would have owed the coach European continent,” according basketball program, head contributions coach Eustachy 14 season in regards to his the remainder of this year’s to their website. coach Larry Eustachy resigned has made to the Colorado State behavior towards members of pay plus three times the base The public safety alert also from his position Monday men’s basketball program and the men’s basketball program. salary, totaling over $3 million. stated CSU wants to set “high afternoon. for the time we have worked Eustachy’s base salary this Matt Stephens reported expectations for respect and The embattled head together,” Director of Athletics year was $985,012, increasing that the decision to fire behavior,” and for students coach and University parted Joe Parker said in a statement. annually through the end of Eustachy was made on affected to take advantage of CSU ways following a second “In turn, I understand and the contract in 2020-21 to Thursday, Feb. 8, with the only resources as needed. investigation into his conduct support Larry’s interest $1,045,302. The contract, Rachel Telljohn can reached at in the last five years. Eustachy to shift his energy toward originally signed in 2013 and see EUSTACHY on page 10 >> [email protected]. COLLEGIAN.COM 2 Tuesday, February 27, 2018 FORT COLLINS FOCUS CORRECTIONS Everybody makes mistakes, including us. If you encounter something in the paper you believe to be an error, email [email protected]. Follow Like CSU Collegian Rocky Mountain Collegian on Snapchat on Facebook Follow Follow @CSUCollegian CSU Collegian on Twitter on Instagram TUESDAY 7 AM - 9 AM DJ Bach 9 AM - 11 PM DJ JJ 1 PM - 3 PM Local Local Lunch Hour 4 PM - 5 PM News Rocky Mountain Review 5 PM - 7 PM DJ Squid Cephalopodcast 7 PM - 8 PM B&B Sports SHOW SCHEDULE 2/26 - 3/01 Live show at 7 p.m. Monday Sports Show abailable on Comcast Tuesday News channel 11, stream at collegian.com, YouTube Wednesday CTV Local Beats and Facebook. On demand 24/7 on YouTube. 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The first is a partnership population these predictive success, but what to do with it is with Education Advisory Board, models are built on. an ethical question that remains the program currently used by A particular concern arises unanswered. advisors that collects data on when considering the University’s Colorado State University students’ demographics and high student success initiative, which is recently began a campus school performance. The second fueled by the desire to be a student- conversation about how is the learning analytics program ready campus, especially for to effectively and ethically LoudCloud, which would predict traditionally underrepresented implement the use of educational student success for use by faculty. populations such as first- data science, known as learning Loud Cloud is in the pilot- generation students, students of analytics. testing phase in order to give color and low-income students, Learning analytics involve faculty an opportunity to see how Hickey said. Associated Students of Colorado State University Director of Academics the collection, measurement the program would function, “If the predictive analytics Bayler Shubert discusses learning analytics in an interview with analysis and reporting of data but no real student data is being are not built on that diverse of a The Collegian Feb. 14. PHOTO BY MACKENZIE BOLTZ COLLEGIAN about learners, their behaviors utilized at this time. population, we may be drawing and their contexts. Currently, the The Committee on Teaching some conclusions about what it EAB, and because they have consent agenda Feb. 21. Shubert University collects information and Learning, a task force on the means to be successful as a student been thoughtful as to who owns said the next step is to present on all students including ACT and Ethics of Learning Analytics, on the basis of these predictive the student data. However, he these principles via a report to the SAT scores, GPA, and their use of took up the question of how to models that don’t apply to the identified a risk in the current lack Faculty Council in order to seek Canvas, the University’s course implement Learning Analytics students we’re most interested in of explicit policy in that individual their endorsement before moving management website. The data, thoughtfully by means of a set of helping,” Hickey said. faculty members could still engage onto the policy-making process.