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OPINION SPORTS ARTS & CULTURE Campus tours are Softball and baseball Art and cats come together unrealistic differ greatly at Grand Cats Gallery Vol. 128, No. 98 Tuesday, February 26, 2019 page 6 page 10 page 12 The Colorado State University Bookstore offers inclusive access books through the program Verba to provide lower online textbook costs for students. Of the courses which use inclusive access books, 52.1 percent require an e-book and homework bundle, while others require one component or the other. INFOGRAPHIC BY MEG METZGER-SEYMOUR COLLEGIAN Students, faculty, bookstores adapt to digital textbook model By Samantha Ye 16,297 students, had digital ma- ments. e-book bundles topping over from a different angle. @samxye4 terials listed on the Bookstore’s E-books may have physical $100, according to The Atlantic, For the last few years, the inclusive access program this options at a higher price, but despite students’ access expir- CSU Bookstore has been ex- As more professors turn to spring. In comparison, there the assignments can only be ing after a set time limit. The panding Verba, an inclusive the convenience of the access are 45 higher-level courses completed through the online New York Times writes that ac- access program which allows code textbooks, students and with digital materials, covering platform, making it nearly im- cess codes eliminate students’ students to purchase access bookstores are finding new op- only 6,250 students. possible to pass the class with- cost-cutting options like shar- to the e-books and homework tions for affordability. These digital materials out it. ing, reusing or reselling books, assignments directly through According to Colorado State can only be accessed through Digital materials have been leaving them with basically no the Bookstore, no access code University Bookstore data, 50 codes students must purchase known to be cheaper, or even cheaper options. see DIGITAL on page 4 >> lower-level courses, covering through the publisher in or- free. Yet prices remain high So, college bookstores are der to view and submit assign- with many homework and starting to come at the costs YourYour MomMom LikesLikes Rocksteady 824Tattoo S. College Ave Rocksteady Tattoo970-449-4695 Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2 | Collegian.com FORT COLLINS FOCUS Psychology professor Anne Cleary presents her ongoing research on “Wearable Technology for Enhancing Learning” in the Nancy Richardson Design Center Feb. 19. Organized by the Center for the Analytics of Learning and Teaching, Cleary’s presentation represented an integration of cognitive science, technology and design. As a cognitive psychologist, she also studies and urges students to take different strategies to studying that are grounded in science, like the process of visualization to increase memory. PHOTO BY BROOKE BUCHAN COLLEGIAN Follow overheard on the plaza TUESDAY CSU Collegian on Snapchat 7 AM - 9 AM Rich Raff Boombox Bangers “I lost my bones! 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[email protected] [email protected] Classifieds | 970-491-1683 Display Advertising | 970-491-7467 News | Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | 3 CAMPUS Building a history: How CSU names their buildings By Laura Studley has been very positive,” Haberecht @laurastudley_ said. “I think that growth has pro- vided (a) diversity of opportunity.” Students know the names of Some of the most well-known buildings like Clark, Eddy and Yates buildings at CSU, such as Clark, well, but does anyone really know Eddy and Yates, are named after the history behind these names? key figures in CSU’s history who got One hundred and forty-nine them in different ways. years ago, Colorado State Univer- In 1972, the then State Board of sity had to prove their legitimacy, Agriculture approved a new policy and Linda Meyer, an archivist for that allowed classroom buildings the Agricultural and Natural Re- to be named after individuals, rath- sources Collection, talked about er than limiting the building to its the early history of CSU and this functional purpose. proof of legitimacy. “The way that they used to do “I think one of the most fun things was that they would name things about CSU is that the origi- the residence halls after people, and nal building was a little brick build- they would name the classrooms’ ing that they called the ‘claim shan- buildings after the function of the ty,’” Meyer said. “They had to put it building, so the engineering build- up quickly in order to establish the ing or the botany building or agri- cultural science building,” Meyers The Albert C. Yates Chemistry bulding was named in 2003 in honor of the former president of Colorado State right of Fort Collins to be the seat of from 1990-2003. PHOTO BY MATT BEGEMAN COLLEGIAN the agricultural college.” said. “Now there’s an element of if somebody donates a lot of mon- In 1879, the University wel- However, financial investors Hansen said. “He was important ey for a building … (they) have the president of Colorado State. comed their first students to Old aren’t the only source for naming enough in the early stages of the names of people who financed a lot According to SOURCE, Yates Main, the second building on cam- rights. University that he got his name at- of construction for the buildings.” is the third University building to pus after the “claim shanty,” and The construction on Clark Hall tributed to the building.” Meyers said that the Nancy be named after a CSU president, the first classroom building. began in 1966 and officially finished Eddy Hall was named after Wil- Richardson Design Center is an after Charles A. Lory and William Since then, a lot of things have in 1968. The three-wing building is lard O. Eddy on Oct. 21, 1978. example of a name contributed to a E. Morgan. changed. a center for social sciences, provid- “Willard Eddy was the heart financial donor. CSU has an extensive history, it Presently, CSU as a whole hous- ing an abundance of learning spac- and soul of liberal arts at Colora- “You could say (with) the Rich- will reach its 150th anniversary in es 705 buildings which then hold es for students, computer labs and do State University. He started ardson Design Center, someone 2020. Expansion and growth have 3,295 classrooms and 1,237 labora- offices for staff. an honors program here (and) he who is very interested in interior helped CSU become the University tories for the outstanding total of James Hansen, who wrote gave lectures in philosophy … on design and wanted to provide that it is today, Haberecht said. approximately 10.4 million gross “CSU’s Sense of Place” with Linda the meaning of education and life,” opportunity,” Meyers said. “So “I think that thoughtfulness, square feet. Meyer and Gordon Hazard, elabo- Hansen said. sometimes it’s the person (who) planning and the expansion of the University Planner Fred Ha- rates on how Clark was chosen for The Yates Hall construction says ‘Hey I’d like to finance this University has created a success- berecht works on the Master Plan the naming, even though he began totaled at $20 million according to kind of building,’ and sometimes it’s ful environment,” Haberecht said.

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