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NEWS COMDEB SPORTS SCENE Dan Johnson’s almost per- Sustainablity beyond CC? Last meet, last chance for Gucci Mane brings pride to fect predictive formula the swimming champion- the South ship Phoebe 2 Ellie Wood 4 Carrie Markel 5 Kieffer Katz 8 Parker-Shames Volume 40 No 13 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF COLORADO COLLEGE Check out Guest Writer Frankie Modell In “Coachella Music Fes- tival” Page 7 January 29, 2010 The numerous faces of week- catalystnewspaper.com end escapism > Residential Life Sammi Labue Guest Writer struggles to fi nd a t around nine pm on a Friday night, the place for new and CC campus is mildly deserted. Everyone Ahas ended their day and is preparing to enter night-mode. Women scrounge through returning students closets, passing over neon onesies and Santa hats, in hopes of stumbling across a distressed mini Aly Wisler skirt or, heavens permit, that personalized spray- Guest Writer painted muscle tank they knew would come in he start of second semester found Resi- handy one day. A faint smell of aerosol hairspray dential Life scrambling to find homes for surrounds the dorm buildings, as the dressed-up winter start, transfer and study-abroad young ladies emerge trying to coax their male T friends into similar garb. The drunker the men students returning to campus. The influx this year has left CC housing shy, which has resulted get, the more willing the are to maybe throw on in delegating students into makeshift rooms and a wife-beater. Four shots later they’re covered in faculty housing. permanent marker, tribal tattoos, and hair gel; The frustration over crammed spaces and fi st pumping their way to a night of debauchery lost common areas has left many students ques- It is amusing, but also somewhat alarming, to see all of your generally intelligent friends sud- It’s not a horrible denly transformed into “guidos and guidettes.” What’s even more uncomfortable, is the shock situation, I was one of of seeing the meek intellectual from your third “the lucky ones block class sporting a blotchy fake tan and screaming “grenade launcher” while belliger- Courtney Cox ently overshooting her beer pong shot.Who have these people become? One day, CC students tioning why this is happening. ” are diligently writing a research paper on health “We had more students come back from concerns in the Middle East while channeling abroad,” said Assistant Director of Residential the likes of their intellectual inspirations. The Life and Housing Operations Justin Weis. next, next they are trying to do their best Pauly More juniors are coming back onto campus D or JWOWW impression. I think we can all after their study abroad opportunities, making agree we hope to become the antithesis of these Photo: Annie Hanson it difficult to find a place on campus for them TV personalities in our future, but for one night to live. Residential Life sets up such returning we’re happy to be a “juicehead.” mous women. Now, Jersey Shore offers you the and where almost half the population thinks it students in whatever spaces happen to be avail- It’s the same with all theme parties. At the chance to fl ash your underwear on a dance fl oor would have been a good idea to have Sarah Palin able. Sometimes this involves making double end of a stressful school week the last person mid-cartwheel or punch a man on steroids in one heart-beat away from the presidency, and rooms into triples or changing study rooms and we want to be is ourselves, or at least not the the face at a club without ever leaving the couch. where gay couples can’t get married, but fi rst lounges into bedrooms for both incoming and frazzled, academic version. Incorporating the Theme a party around the show, and that’s just cousins can, Snooki Polizzi DESERVES to be a returning students. added guilty pleasures of reality TV and alcohol one step closer to losing ourselves. It’s thrilling, superstar.” The fact is, she’s a superstar because Courtney Cox, a sophomore transfer student into the mix results in people are falling all over and funny, and just simply entertaining whether of health, and politics, and civil rights. Suddenly, from the University of British Columbia, is themselves to get in the door. Sophomore Tor- we like it or not (which we obviously do). fl ipping open your laptop and hunting down the one of five students living in study lounges in rin Schuster even admits, “I wish I could dress Admit it. You’ve watched it, too. Some of last delicious episode of Jersey Shore sounds Slocum. like that everyday.” you may even guiltily dream about dropping like a pretty nice alternative to pulling your hair “It’s not a horrible situation,” Cox said. “I was But reality television is exactly the opposite the 5,000 dollars an hour to have Snooki grace out. Meanwhile, why not tease your ponytail or one of the lucky ones.” of reality. It’s the escape into someone else’s life, your party with her presence. Professor Kathy put on an accent for the next theme party, if The lounge is slightly larger than a typical a life you most defi nitely wouldn’t live yourself, Giuffre, from the sociology department, has only to escape yourself for another night? single and includes a wall-length white board, but that’s what makes it so intoxicating. We get even seen it, commenting, “In a world where but Cox had to buy her own curtains to block to watch housewives get in catfi ghts and consid- people show up to rallies holding signs that say the large windows to the hallway. erably trashy men vie for the love of barely fa- ‘Keep your government hands off my Medicare’ Continued on page 2 2 January 29, 2010 News CC Economics Professor Gains Global Notoriety Phoebe Parker-Shames world is taking note. “All I’m saying is that it is more likely for Staff Writer “I get so many requests for interviews- more an Olympic athlete to come from a large, than I can possibly do,” Johnson said. rich, western nation,” Johnson said. “It’s Want to know how many medals the U.S. is In the past week he has met with Estonian, not reasonable to put all countries on equal going to take home after these next Winter Canadian, Korean and Japanese press. In 2008 footing- just look at their resources. I think it’s Olympic games? Just ask CC professor Daniel he said he did 50-some interviews, explaining reasonable to set our expectations differently. Johnson of the Economics Department. A that the Summer Olympics usually get more If they outperform their expectations, we model Johnson developed to predict medal press than the winter, since there are more should celebrate that. That might mean the US counts has between a 93-96% accuracy rate, countries that compete, and more events. winning 24 medals or Zimbabwe winning one. garnering him international news coverage as Johnson even uses the model in his classes, They are equally incredible events.” the Olympic games draw near. “I don’t use it as an active teaching prop, but Joanna Tebin, a freshman and probable eco- “Our idea was that we could use macro- as an example for ‘why should we learn about nomics major, is impressed with the model. economics tools to explain Olympic medals,” economics?’ It’s a provocative example,” he “It’s really cool. He’s helping some nations to Johnson said. “We tested them out in ’99 to said. be realistic about how many medals they can 2000 and thought that we’d be laughed out of So, what is his prediction for the upcoming win,” she said. the room, but we actually had a correlation of games? Johnson’s model suggests that Canada Russia is projected to win the most gold .96.” will take home 27 medals, more than any other medals according to the model. Johnson is Johnson developed the model with an under- nation. If the projection pans out, it will be especially excited to see if the predictions graduate student in 1999 when he was teaching the first time Canada has ever won the most hold true, as this year holds a special attraction at Harvard University. It uses five factors to medals. for him. It will be his first time to attend the predict the total medal count: income per “That would be shocking, that would be games. Despite its correlation, some remain skepti- capita, population size, climate, political struc- newsworthy,” Johnson said. “I’ve never been to an Olympics, but I’m cal of Johnson’s model- most notably some ture and host status. It also looks at historical In this case, the “home court advantage” going this year,” he said. “I was in Vancouver athletes themselves. Taylor Fletcher, a 19 data from the last 57 years. would play heavily in Canada’s favor, an idea during the Salt Lake games- how’s that for year old member of the US Olympic Nordic “We do take into account that some nations that is surprising to some CC students. Howev- irony?” Combined team dismissed the idea that any are more athletically minded,” Johnson said. er, the American and Norweigan teams are just Johnson acknowledges that his predictions academic projection could determine the out- “For example, Australia always performs better one medal away from Canada in the prediction, are just predictions. come of the games. than those attributes suggest, at least in the demonstrations that the chances for greatest “If everyone knew [the medal outcome] in “There’s no way you can predict who will get Summer Olympics.

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