Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving Break, CSU. Classes resume on Monday, Nov. 29. Co l l e g i a n .C o m Pa g e s 8 CSU reacts to the potential discontinuance Volleyball wins Border of CU-Boulder’s journalism school War, football waits for University still undergoing renovations Saturday’s chance after historic 1992 Fort Collins flood Men’s basketball takes Look at the Harry Potter theme park down DU in Denver THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 119 | No. 72 Friday, November 19, 2010 COLLEGIAN www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 the lives of a LUDACRIS IN LIGHTS community in transition By AlexAndrA Sieh The Rocky Mountain Collegian As he looked into the faces of those around him one year ago, Mac Simon said he couldn’t help but see the truth of his identity in those faces at the an- nual Transgender Day of Remembrance. Always aware of his transgender identity but still hesitant to admit it, Simon went to the event with friends he had made in his time as an intern at the Lambda Center, Fort Collins’ GLBTIQQA com- munity center, still gender questioning. But as he looked around, it became clear. “I felt like there was a mirror being held up to me, like I was seeing my reflection in a lot of people in that room,” he said, and with that truth, he left intimidated by what he had discovered. “It took me a few months after that to get the balls to come out,” he said, to admit to himself and others that he was a transman. But since he made that choice, he has been “out and proud,” working each day to share awareness and understanding about what it really means to be trans. See tlgB on Page 3 sam noBlett | COLLEGIAN Maria Montano, left, Duff Noris and Mac Simon, right, pose in the Lambda Community Center on Mason Street. All three are leaders in the transgen- der community, working toward awareness and support not only for those in transition but also for allies and others in the GLBT community. Eliminating acts of bullying By AlexAndrA Sieh The Rocky Mountain Collegian For the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, it has been a difficult few months, with nine young lives recently lost to suicide as a result of bullying for their sexual orientation and gender identity. With the media’s spotlight turned to Tyler Cle- menti, a gay student at Rutgers University who nick lyon | COLLEGIAN jumped from the George Washington Bridge after Christopher Brian Bridges, also known as Ludacris, performed Thursday night at Moby Arena during the ASAP concert. having his sexual encounter with another man posted on Facebook by his roommate, a number of other tragedies have swept across the headlines. The alarming reality is that this isn’t a new trend He came, he saw, he blew Moby away or even an increasing one. As Cory Barrett, the director of Rainbow Alley at By MAtt Miller seats in the arena. best weed in Colorado,” he said before The Center, Denver’s GLBT resource and commu- The Rocky Mountain Collegian To begin the show Ludacris chal- he played “Bluberry Yum Yum.” nity center, said in a phone interview, gay suicide lenged CSU to know any song he What followed was what may have has always been a problem, with high rates that Last night on the floor of Moby played. He followed by playing a series been the biggest cheer to have ever have persisted over a number of years. Arena, where the green and gold of of random songs, and voices joined come from Moby. The difference, he said, is the media picked up Rams volleyball and basketball can him, knowing each word. For the next hour and 15 minutes these stories, primarily because of the hot-button normally be seen was an undulating His audience interaction contin- Ludacris flowed through his many issues of cyber-bullying and discrimination. mass of bodies with a crown of arms ued throughout the show. hits as concertgoers danced under the But while there has been loss, the recent height- in the air. “Where are all my alcoholics here occasional puffs of smoke floating up ened awareness of this problem has now set in mo- At 8 p.m. the lights dropped on a at CSU,” Ludacris asked the mob of to the rafters. tion the momentum needed to consider reform in Moby that looked more like the Pepsi bodies in front of him at one point. “I’ve known how to sing ‘Money school districts. Center, and out on the stage walked Screams from the crowd respond- Maker’ since I was a freshman in high Ludacris greeted by the screams of ed. CSU, who filled all but a handful of “Someone told me you have the See ludA on Page 5 See Bully on Page 5 State Parks consider options to lease parkland for drilling By AlliSon Sylte in no way is it set to go into effect agency. regulated by the state parks ser- State funding for Colorado The Rocky Mountain Collegian any time soon,” said Deb Frazier, Because the state parks don’t vice. State Parks has decreased from $6.7 the communications manager for own mineral rights for the major- “Any lease on land owned by million in 2009 to $2.6 million this As one of many options to close the state parks service. ity of the land, private corporations Colorado State Parks would re- fiscal year, and is supposed to de- the funding gap created by recent Colorado State Parks owns only can still directionally drill under quire an extensive environmental crease even further next year, cre- budget shortfalls, Colorado State 21.6 percent of the 225,260 land parkland via an adjacent property. assessment, including provisions ating the plan under the assump- Parks could be selling mineral and water acres that the agency Allowing surface drilling in the for habitat protection, water qual- tion that state parks will receive rights and allowing private cor- manages, but doesn’t necessarily parks would allow for state parks to ity protection and the other values zero state funding. porations to drill in some of it’s 42 own, the mineral rights to related generate increased revenue from that are part of the state park’s mis- Currently, Barr Lake State Park parks. to that land, which are generally these pursuits and would mandate sion and vision statement,” Frazier “This is simply a proposal, and owned by another state or federal that any drilling would be better said. See parkS on Page 5 2 Friday, November 19, 2010 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian FORT COLLINS FOCUS REPRINTS Seen a Collegian photo you want to get your hands on? Go to http://reprints.col- legian.com to order copies of photos printed in the Collegian. Tune in to channel 11 at 9 p.m. for CTV Fort Collins News, CTV Sports and residents the Colorado Music Chris Lounge. Swetnam, left, and his daughter Nellie Swet- CAMPUS CALENDAR nam, 1, play To submit calendar entries at City Park go to Collegian.com/ Thursday afternoon. calendar. City Park is open from dawn “Like” The to dusk Rocky Mountain 365 days a year and Collegian on includes fa- facebook.com. cilities such as golf, Follow our canoeing, playgrounds tweets on the and base- RMCollegian feed. ball. 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