DECEMBER 11, 2015 LYST THE CATATHE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF COLORADO COLLEGE NEWS 2 Opinion 8 SPORTS 11 LIFE 15 FRIDAY BLOCK 4 Illustration by WEEK 3 Rachel Fischman COME WITH HOCKEY STIFFS REEL TALK: VOL. 46 MIAMI IN THIRD ‘SPOTLIGHT’ ME IF YOU NO. 12 WANT TO LIVE STRAIGHT WIN REVIEW CATALYSTNEWSPAPER.COM MORE: MORE: Page 10 Photo courtesy of CC Athletics MORE: Page 11 Photo by David Andrews Page 15 #COP21 CC students get an inside look at crucial international climate negotiations at the Paris Climate Summit. CLIMATE: Page 7 Photo by Gabriella Palko In light of his new jams, ANNIE ENGEN CommunityStaff Writer healing after Planned Parenthood shooting senior Jack Sweeney mann commented on how she felt Counseling Center Director Bill Dove. sits down with the the day of the shooting. “I didn’t re- Up to six counseling sessions, free ally feel safe on campus and was re- of charge, are available for students Catalyst to discuss In the past year, there have been ally irritated by the mail that said we to take advantage of—an opportunity over 350 mass shootings in the U.S., were out of danger.,” she said. “How that many undergrads never utilize music and his problems one of them being the Planned Par- could we not be in danger when the throughout their careers at CC. You enthood shooting in Colorado Springs shooter was 15 minutes away?” are encouraged to go to the Coun- with ladies. on Nov. 27. MORE: Page 5 A certain level of distress has af- seling Center, located in Boettcher “There have been so many shoot- fected some of the students on cam- Health Center, if you are feeling un- ings, but this was close to home, so pus. comfortable in light of the recent local that was hard,” said Colorado College “The Counseling Center has re- event. HEALING: Page 6 �irst-year Emily Carlson. sponded to a number of urgent re- INSIDE: International student Julian Ham- quests for counseling,” said CC’s With the fall semester CC under re over student suspension following Yik Yak posts about to end, ResLife HELEN GRIFFITHS Staff Writer fi nds itself amidst a mitment to diversity. ties, published an article titled “Colo- housing crisis for spring The commitment, sent out in an rado College Suspends Student for email to the campus following the Two Years for Six-Word Joke on Yik semester. With conversations regarding the thread of Yik Yaks, read, “Our com- Yak” on Monday, Dec. 7. In it, the au- recent suspension and expulsion of mitment to diversity and inclusion is thor details the suspension of CC ju- two CC students following a thread of interwoven with our commitment to nior Thaddeus Pryor in response to MORE: Page 4 racial slurs posted on Yik Yak already discourse and liberal learning.” his comment on the #blackwomen- bursting onto the national scene, FIRE, a nonpartisan, nonpro�it edu- matter Yik Yak post that read, “They the college is now even more in the cational foundation that works on matter, they’re just not hot.” @catalystnews spotlight after the Foundation for In- behalf of individual rights, freedom FIRE Senior Program Of�icer Ari dividual Rights in Education (FIRE) of expression, academic freedom, CONTROVERSY: Page 6 challenged the validity of President due process, and rights of conscience Jill Tiefenthaler’s campus-wide com- at our nation’s colleges and universi- 2 NEWS DECEMBER 11, 2015 JACKSON PAINE Staff Writer hopes that it will eventually make its plans. They help keep trash in control satch has improved greatly in the last way back to the owner. Sometimes they during the city’s big July 4 celebrations, three years. KCSB continueseven �ind effortspeople. to cleanas well as the Labor up Day Lift after Off, and Ter- CC“Last year students was horrendous. I mean It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday, and most stu- “One time [Beth] found a young man ritory Days during Memorial Day week- HORRENDOUS!” said Cunningham. “The dents are busy sleeping off the night be- who had fallen asleep halfway inside his end. Just last Saturday they picked up year before that was even worse.” fore. Perhaps some earlier risers have car,” said Cunningham. “We go beyond along the route of the festival of lights Despite the improvements, most stu- already occupied Colorado Coffee, but just picking up cups.” parade, making sure every street from dents are entirely unaware of KCSB’s in- Beth, an employee at local charity orga- Keep Colorado Springs Beautiful does Tejon to Rio Grande was clean. volvement on campus. nization Keep Colorado Springs Beauti- a lot more than just pick up after Colora- Their focus, as always falls in line with “I talk about [KCSB] in my off-campus ful, is already up and moving picking up do College students. As the local af�iliate their mission statement of “[elevating] workshop I give to juniors, and they just trash along Wahsatch Street. of Keep America Beautiful within Colo- the spirit and [improving] lives through can’t believe it,” said Zach Kroger, the Every Saturday and Sunday, Beth and rado Springs, KCSB is very active within the care and beauti�ication of Colorado Residential Life and Activities Program another volunteer clean up the solo the community. Dee and her organiza- Springs.” They work hard for the city and Coordinator. “[We] pay them $5200 a cups, beer cans, and any other trash left tion facilitate a variety of events to help the citizen, and despite the never-ending year. That is essentially paid for by the out on the lawns of fraternity houses students out of and residents of Colorado Springs. their campus ac- “It’s been years and years since the tivities fees.” college �irst contacted us,” said Dee While the Cunningham, the Executive Director amount of money of the charity organization Keep Colo- isn’t jaw drop- rado Springs Beautiful. “There were ping, it is a little a lot of neighborhood complaints hypocritical when around the fraternity and sorority considering the houses... and they asked if we would importance that come in Saturday morning or Sunday Colorado College morning really early to get [things] puts on environ- cleaned up.” mentalism and Keep Colorado Springs Beautiful recycling. We em- also cleans up the streets where stu- phasize the indi- dents live off campus. Nevada and vidual responsibil- Wahsatch typically have the most ity to compost and trash, and Weber rarely has much of recycle campus a problem. On Saturdays and Sundays wide, and we greet KCSB typically �ills two-to-four 45-gal- every freshman lon bags with trash. that is accepted While this doesn’t seem like a lot at with a video about �irst glance, these bags stretch to �it so plans for a carbon much trash that they can’t be moved neutral campus. easily at all. Usually, Beth has to �ill one Yet, we produce so at a time and leave them on the street much loose trash Members of Keep Colorado Springs Beautiful spend Saturday and Sunday mornings cleaning up trash along corners to be picked up and disposed streets where many CC students live. KCSB stresses the importance of an environmentally-friendly mindset and every weekend it of on her way out. When between 90 encourage anti-littering awareness in students. Photograph by Emily Kim can’t even be con- and 180 gallons of trash is produced tained to our front every day of every weekend, it adds yards. up to an alarming amount of garbage. Considering the Efforts to make houses be more re- the city they love. They do workshops to �low of trash they don’t feel sore about it. emphasis on personal accountability in sponsible with their trash have been met help teach kids the value of reusing and “We love doing it, but it’s not the easi- relation to environmentalism, it is sur- with varying levels of success. One prob- recycling, and several pieces of art made est job to do,” said Cunningham. “We prising that students don’t help with this lem is the issue of wind, which blows the from discarded goods line the walls in work really hard to make it [look] good. issue. Originally that was what Cunning- garbage out of the responsible person’s their home of�ice. The neighbors are very appreciative.” ham envisioned for this program: stu- yard and into the street or a neighbor’s “You can make anything out of any- Not only do the neighbors appreciate dents with disciplinary issues cleaning yard. This is a huge issue around the thing,” said Cunningham, gesturing to it, but also the volunteers gain new per- up the street in the mornings as a way of senior cottages, whose trash inevitably a framed �lag of Colorado painted onto spective into just how inconvenient lit- reconciliation. ends up scattered all over Yampa. several slats of cardboard. “Every piece tering is. It is one thing to �lick a cigarette Not only would this put some of the “We recommended putting trash cans of that came from a dumpster, and we’ve butt and keep walking, it’s another thing responsibility for pollution back in the on the porch, so the garbage doesn’t been offered a thousand dollars for it.” entirely to have to pick up every �licked hands of the student, it would also give blow away,” said Cunningham. “Less to They also employ approximately 95 butt on Main Street. them some awareness into just how track down that way. percent of the city of Colorado Springs “We reach so many people just with inconvenient littering is, just like the Trash isn’t the only thing KCSB’s volun- municipal court-ordered individuals.