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OPINION SPORTS A&C ANTI ABORTION TENNIS: PORTER’S AMERICAN SIGN PEOPLE MISS PATH TO CSU LANGUAGE FLASH POINT OF FEMINISM LEADERSHIP MOB HITS PLAZA PAGE 6 PAGE 10 PAGE 11 Volume 126, No. 124 Thursday, April 27, 2017 Abigail DeWolfe and Susan Brown lead the Take Back the Night March against sexual and domestic violence in to Old Town. This march is part of the annual ‘Take Back the Night’ event held to raise awareness for the victims of sexual assault. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN Sexual assault survivors share their stories at Take Back the Night By Haley Candelario students and faculty members in partnership with the Women ing and my parents said, ‘We’re to everyone in search of justifi ca- @H_Candelario98 who participated Wednesday in and Gender Advocacy Center. on our way to come get you, and tion - she wanted to understand the annual sexual assault aware- Weyand said that her par- you’re going to sit down and why she was assaulted. Lyn Weyand, the keynote ness event Take Back the Night. ents were initially supportive you’re going to look him in the “I opened up to anyone I speaker at this year’s Take Back Participants gathered for the when she wrote them a letter to eye, and you’re going to tell him could. I told everyone my story,” the Night event, shared with the event on Colorado State Univer- come out as gay and to tell them what you said,’” Weyand said. Weyand said. “I wanted someone audience a deeply personal story: sity’s Montfort Quad, and then her brother raped her, but by the “’Because we don’t say these to say, ‘This happened to you be- She was raped by her brother. marched to Old Town, Fort Col- next day, their support disap- things about our family. We don’t cause ...’ I just needed a formula. Tears and sni es could be lins. The event was organized by peared. treat our family this way.’” I just needed an explanation be heard in the crowd of about 100 CSU’s Campus Feminist Alliance “I woke up the next morn- Weyand said she reached out see SURVIVORS on page 5 >> COLLEGIAN.COM 2 Thursday, April 27, 2017 Goodbye, and thanks Thank you for the memories work out. wanted to cry. There were a lot Chad I’d be lying if I said I knew of days I wanted to quit my job. for all the puns Deutschman what I was doing right away— I’m not really sure why I never @ChadDeutschman maybe I still don’t—but this did. But looking back on it now, strive to be good members of the past year as editor has been I can’t imagine this year with- Julia community that we serve – to surreal for a lot of reasons. out it. Rentsch be transparent about our oper- I have struggled to put into I will always remember @julia_rentsch ations, to be cognizant of what words, but here it goes: the late nights at Hughes Sta- kinds of stories our readers most Dear Readers, This past year I watched dium with the football sta¬, want to see, and to attempt to dis- my parents get divorced and fumbling through a story as mantle the somewhat exclusion- Want to hear a funny story? my Opa courageously play tug- the last light lit in Fort Collins ary culture that we felt our oce In May 2015, a sophomore o-war with the Grim Reaper for was in the press box we were Dear Readers, had. No matter the accusations at Colorado State Universi- eight long months. sitting in. I will always remem- that have been leveled at us (“fake ty walked into the Collegian The day of the Rocky Moun- ber driving to Vegas and meet- It is traditional for each out- news!”) we have consistently newsroom not knowing a soul tain Showdown, I was told he ing John Elway’s best friend. I going Collegian editor-in-chief worked to produce the best qual- that worked there and has nev- had one year to live. I spent will always remember holding to write a farewell column. At ity journalism that our resources er written an article in his life. Thanksgiving break in UC Ir- sta¬ meetings and seeing blank the risk of being horribly cliché, will allow. And there is so much Before that, the same vine hospital by his side with stares looking back at me like I must confess that it is very hard more to be done – the news never sophomore had sent countless my Mom and Omi as one year I just spoke nonsense—which to write now that it is my turn to stops, and neither do we. emails to sports@collegian. unfairly turned into a phone easily could be true. I will al- essentially pen my own student We have laughed and cried; com begging for an interview could ring any day. On April 7, ways remember panicking the media epitaph. In part, this is be- we’ve slept on the uncomfortable and never heard back. about a month before gradua- night before a special edition. I cause I have a colleague behind newsroom couches; we’ve told The student walked into tion—something my Opa and I will always remember reading me with a video camera shooting countless terrible puns; we’ve the newsroom, stopped at talked an awful lot about—I got our professional advisor’s cri- some B-roll for a video he is work- fought; we’ve partied; we’ve typed the front desk and asked, “Hi, that call from my brother at 6:22 tiques, only to make the same ing on as I struggle to write coher- like the wind; we’ve freaked the I’m Chad Deutschman. Can I a.m. mistake again the next day... ently about this experience – this hell out; we’ve felt proud of our please have a job?” A lot of people have lost Sorry. I will always remember backbreaking, tear-jerking, anx- accomplishments. And amid it Yeah, I’m that kid. That was someone in their life. I won’t being the guy who had to get iety-inducing, sleep-depriving, all, we’ve learned a heck of a lot about two years ago. pretend my hardships have pizza for the rest of the news- absolutely wonderful year, which about community journalism. By the grace of God, I got been any more dicult than room because I didn’t know at times nearly broke me, but that As always, thank you for your that job on the sports desk. the next person’s—that is not enough about the election to be I wouldn’t trade for the world. support of the Rocky Mountain Even became lucky enough to my intention. But having to helpful. Mostly, though, I think I Collegian. In the hands of our cover the CSU Women’s Soccer see my family struggle for eight But most importantly, I can barely put my farewell into successors, led by editor-in-chief- beat my junior year. I‘m pretty months has been the most dif- will always remember the peo- words because it truly feels like elect Erin Douglas and managing sure there was a typo in my first ficult thing I’ve ever done for ple I met along the way. my time here has hardly begun. editor-elect Tatiana Parafini- story—and every story since— reasons I can’t find words to To the sports desk, I say Even though I wouldn’t hazard a uk-Talesnick, there can only be but I’m a fan of blaming editors explain. I would be lying to my- thank you. Thank you for put- guess about how many hours my more great things to come. for those things. self if I said these things didn’t ting up with me for an entire colleagues and I have spent in All my best, Fast forward one year from have an a¬ect on my work and year, especially when I wasn’t our basement oce in the LSC, it my awkward job begging and I school this year. always the most available per- feels like we are only just getting Julia Rentsch, was named sports editor of the There were days I wanted son. Thank you for working started. This year, we wanted to Collegian Editor-in-Chief Collegian. It’s funny how things to be alone. There were days I see THANKS on page 14 >> Everybody makes mistakes, includ- overheard on the PLAZA• this • campus • says • funny • things sometimes THURSDAY ing us. If you encounter something in the paper you believe to be an error, email [email protected]. 7 AM - 9 AM DJ TBD’s Hello World “Damn… your new bathrobe is gangster.” The More You 9 AM - 11 AM Raven & Skully In the article “CSU climbing member Know “I don’t want to kill a lot of people, but races in Boston Marathon” published 2 Wednesday, April 26, 2017, Chris Retzla¬, she’s on the list. 11 AM - 1 PM MD The Hong Kong Fu Book of Tricks Vol. 3 Adrian Macdonald, Jerry Lanning and Seth Woodring were incorrectly referred “Oh, trust me, I wrote a poem about it. It’s 1 PM - 3 PM Automated Music Broadcast to as alumni. Retzla¬ is a CSU junior, called, ‘You Stupid Damn Bikers.’” Macdonald does not and has not attended CSU, Lanning is a CSU senior and Wo- 3 PM - 5 PM Bee’s Knee’s w/ E E odring is a CSU sophomore.