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Thursday, February 25, 2016 Volume 125, No. 23 • collegian.com A Survivor’s Story PAGE 3 Holocaust survivor Albert Rosa shares his story of survival in front of a packed LSC Ballroom Wednesday evening. Once Rosa was freed from Auschwitz, he went on to fi nd his way to allied fi ghters who fought against the Nazis. PHOTO BY MEGAN FISCHER COLLEGIAN Holocaust survivor tells his story in the Lory Student Center NEWS OPINION SPORTS Go west, candidates! Black History Month No. 25 Rams roll on Presidential hopefuls wrap The celebration could, and CSU women’s hoops steals up crucial week in Nevada should be even greater win at New Mexico PAGE 10 PAGE 8 PAGE 14 2 Thursday, February 25, 2016 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian collegian.com FORT COLLINS FOCUS OFF THE OVAL These Stanford graduates want to help you run a Follow YouTube empire @CSUCollegian on Twitter LOS ANGELES - Aspiring stars in Los Angeles used to measure success by the num- ber of parts or auditions they snared. Travel video-bloggers Da- Like CSUCollegian mon Dominique and Joanna on Facebook Franco do it by brewing a pot of coee in the morning, open- ing their laptops and counting the number of new comments, mentions and likes they tallied. The duo, known online as Damon and Jo, have attracted advertisers by amassing more Follow than 210,000 subscribers on CSU Collegian YouTube. That’s enough of a on Instagram following to hopefully never have to walk dogs or deliver gro- ceries again. But maintaining that mo- mentum won’t be easy. It takes a relentless pace of new content and round-the-clock tending of Follow fans on social media. CSU Collegian “When you get to a certain on Snapchat level it’s impossible to see ev- ery YouTube comment,” said Franco, a 23-year-old native of Rio de Janeiro who grew up in Connecticut and moved to LA last summer. “It’s easy to say, ‘I’m overwhelmed.’” Toxicology masters student, Tyler Younger, 23, takes his dog with him to go fly fishing at the Poudre River. Without the means to hire PHOTO BY BIANCA TORREZ COLLEGAIN a team of publicists, agents and assistants, Dominique and Franco turned to software de- KCSU SCHEDULE veloped by a LA startup called Epoxy to maximize their digital THURSDAY influence. The company’s tools LISTEN ONLINE AT KCSUFM.COM Jackson Hindman bolster the art and science of DJ Captain Jack Internet fame, giving so-called 7:00 AM DJ TBD content creators, in the par- Abandon Ship lance of the digital video world, a badly needed edge at a time 9:00 AM Automated Music Q: What is your favorite hobby? when competition is fierce. Broadcast A: Awkward conversations, especially with myself. On air. Epoxy does this by merg- ing Damon and Jo’s YouTube, DJ Salinger’s Q: If you could be a musical instrument, what would you be? Why? Facebook, Twitter and Insta- 11:00 AM “Knickknack Hour” A: A guitar… hero controller. gram accounts, allowing them to post new clips and pictures DJ Squid & Captain Q: What is something unusual about you, or something most people don’t on any of those networks from 1:00 PM Jack’s “Abandon Ship” know? one place. A: By day, I’m a DJ celebrity, but by night I take o my DJ cape “I don’t have to have 7,000 tabs open anymore,” said Dom- DJ Steez’s “The and mask and dress as a “normal person,” and drive my nor- 3:00 PM mal-mobile around to do average stu. inique, a 24-year-old native of Plug” Fort Wayne, Ind., who became Q: Why should people listen to your show? close friends with Franco at Pace University in New York. 5:00 PM The Ramblers (Sports) A: Because it’s free! Who doesn’t like free stu? Settings can also be toggled Q: What do you see in the future of music? so that the pair are notified any DJ Fox’s “City to City” time someone with a big social 7:00 PM A: I see internet radio stations taking o and creating new oppor- media following gives them a tunities for careers in radio! 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Letters to [email protected] Display Advertising | 970-491-7467 the editor should be sent to [email protected]. or 970-491-6834 N 3 NEWS Thursday, February 25, 2016 91-year-old Holocaust survivor speaks in LSC By Megan Fischer biomedical sciences major De- like that makes me realize may- @MegFischer04 nise Negrete. She is the vice pres- be my problems aren’t the end of ident of Students for Holocaust the world,” Negrete said. “We can A string of numbers en- Awareness. create huge changes if we want to graved on the arms of Holocaust “Why do we care about any and it starts at becoming aware.” survivors serves as a reminder history?” Negrete asked. “Be- Rosa decided he wanted to of an event in history that killed cause it can repeat itself, I think come to the United States at the millions. For all, they are tattoos it’s important to understand dif- end of the war, but he had to ap- of experiences they never asked ferent cultures that aren’t your ply for immigration status first. for. own and understand what they Eventually, he was able to come With many sitting on the went through, because it could to the U.S. with his wife, who was floor in a filled ballroom in the happen again, and it could hap- from Austria. The two arrived in Lory Student Center at Colorado pen to anyone.” Denver, Colorado, in 1949. State University, Holocaust sur- Negrete said hearing about Rosa said his wife died in his vivor Albert Rosa, 91, shared his what survivors from the Ho- arms nine years ago. journey from his home in Greece locaust went through puts her “Never give up,” Rosa said. “If to the United States years after problems into perspective and you have to die, die like a man, die the war ended. He was the only can inspire change. fighting for your life.” Albert Rosa sits with his two daughters, Yuette Rosa (middle) and Regi- survivor from his family. “Hearing how they can still Megan Fischer can be reached na Rosa (right) while listening to Vice President of Holocaust Awareness “When (the Nazis) took me live after living through things at [email protected]. Denise Negrete introduce them. PHOTO BY MEGAN FISCHER COLLEGIAN in, I was 15 years old,” Rosa said. “I lost my education, but I got an education in survival.” Rosa watched many of his siblings die while he was sent to various camps during the Holo- caust. “When my brother died, I promised him I would survive and avenge his death,” Rosa said. Rosa recalled everything he went through while he was in the camps, both in Greece and after he was loaded into a train des- tined for Poland. “It’s a miracle how I sur- vived,” Rosa said. “I saw unbe- lievable things with my eyes.” To escape, Rosa said he and a few other prisoners ran into the woods on a snowy evening. As they escaped, they heard dogs barking. If they stopped, they knew they would have been killed. “I said, ‘Don’t run straight. Run zig-zag so they don’t get you,’” Rosa said. Rosa recalled that those who escaped were worried the Ger- mans were going to follow the footprints in the snow. His sug- gestion was to walk backwards. They then came upon a farm- house -- they were cold, and they were starving. “We didn’t have the proper clothes,” Rosa said. “We dived into the manure to get warm.” Their next goal was to find the American soldiers.