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Fort Collins, Colorado COLLEGIAN Volume 116 | No. 15 Monday, August 27, 2007 www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 The heat is on CSU’s Gray challenges city’s touted climate change plans

By JAMES HOLT ICLEI’S 5-MILESTONE CLIMATE RESILIENT The Rocky Mountain Collegian COMMUNITIES PROGRAM 1. Conduct a Climate Resiliency Study Fort Collins introduced a program earlier 2. Prioritize Areas for Action and Set Goals 3. Develop a Climate Resilient Action Plan this month that is expected to make the city 4. Improve the Plan more resilient to the effects of global warming – 5. Monitor and Reevaluate a step one CSU professor says might be a waste (Source: www.iclei.org) of time and money. FILE PHOTO | COLLEGIAN BRANDON IWAMOTO | COLLEGIAN While the global warming debate continues to heat up local policy-making, Dr. William Gray LEFT: Dr. William Gray, a CSU professor emeritus, is a very well known skeptic of human induced says maybe the city should keep its cool. global warming. “Apparently Fort Collins is going to have a they’re going to do. … Sounds like they’ve RIGHT: Director of Western Water Assessment and University of Colorado professor Brad Udall million dollars to plan for this climate stuff,” speaks to audience members at Fort Collins’ kickoff event with Climate Resilient Communities on he said earlier this month. “I don’t know what See WARMING on Page 3 Tuesday, August 14. Calif. ﬁ re DANCE REVOLUTION blazes on Seven-week-old wild re continues to show life

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A seven-week-old wildfi re in the Santa Barbara County wilderness showed bursts of life Saturday despite fi refi ghters’ signifi cant progress. The so-called Zaca Fire, which nudged its way into Ventura County this past week, was 83 percent contained Saturday evening after burning 239,468 acres, or about 374 square miles of steep back- country. A recommended evacuation for an area west of Highway 33 from the Santa Barbara/Ventura County line south to Pine Mountain Inn was in effect, according to an update by fi re offi cials issued Saturday. The blaze swelled by about 635 acres on Friday on its active northern front and southerly winds sent embers across a containment line at Brubak- er Canyon near Highway 33, according to fi re offi cials. Los Padres National Forest spokesman Larry Comerford said the fl are up burned an area of about 250 acres, but crews halted its spread Sat- urday. “Good progress is being made on that one spot,” Comerford said.

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ARRON MONTOYA | COLLEGIAN Nick Lazzarini, winnner of season one of the television show “So You Think You Can Dance” guides local dancers through choreography on Sunday, at Westin Dance Academy located at the corner of College Avenue and Prospect Road. Lazzarini spent two days with the dancers in order to help them prepare for competitions next spring.

JAMIE LYNN CHEVILLET | AP Chelsea Imm puts magazines into a plastic storage container on Saturday, as she helps clean up Local studio brings in TV dance star her aunt’s art studio that was damaged by ﬂ ood- ing in downtown Ottawa, Ohio.

By JESSI STAFFORD Westin Arts Academy. GET YOUR GROOVE ON The Rocky Mountain Collegian “At JUMP, our kids really caught his eye, so I asked him if he would come to Westin Dance & Arts Academy Local dance studio, Westin Arts Acad- Westin,” Westin said. “He said ‘defi nitely.’” 1611 S College Ave, Fort Collins, CO Tornado storms emy, is proving they know how to dance. As far as Lazzarini is concerned, the (970) 221-1319 And Nick Lazzarini, season one win- decision to come back to Colorado was not ner of the Fox reality show “So You Think a diffi cult choice to make. Denver, along- Andre’s School of Ballroom Dance 225 W. Oak St., Fort Collins, CO pummel Ohio You Can Dance,” is keeping them on their side Los Angeles, was his favorite city to (970) 266-8249 toes. visit during last year’s tour with JUMP. Lazzarini is teaching choreography “The kids were really good and posi- Mountain Gymnastics & Dance By JOHN McCARTHY for three dances, including a group piece tive,” he said. “They were very supportive 419 E Stuart St, Fort Collins, CO The Associated Press made up of 10-to 13-year-olds, in three of each other.” (970) 482-3118 days. The convention was last spring, and COLUMBUS, Ohio - Beleaguered residents of For the dancers, this is an incredibly Lazzarini has fi nally made his way from Seven Oaks Academy the fl ood-ravaged Midwest found fresh damage short amount of time to learn such dif- his home in New York City to spend his 3513 Richmond Dr, Fort Collins, CO Sunday from a batch of tornado-bearing thun- (970) 229-0300 fi cult numbers. But the dancers, all of limited amount of time with the kids derstorms that knocked out power to hundreds of whom are younger than 18, and Lazzarini, skilled enough to last through the infor- Colorado Academy of the Arts Inc thousands of customers. are up for the challenge. mal auditions. Tornado warnings were issued Saturday af- “It’s diffi cult, but he goes over things, Westin Arts Academy is beginning to 1608 Riverside Ave, Fort Collins, CO (970) 224-2224 ternoon for parts of central and southeast Ohio. so he makes it a little easier,” said dancer open its doors to professional dancers Downed trees and power lines were reported in the Courtney McKenzie. outside of the surrounding areas, which southern part of the state, said National Weather Lazzarini is part of the dance con- is not necessarily something most dance Service meteorologist Andy Hatzos. vention company called JUMP that hosts studios practice. Flooding this past week spread across an 80- classes and competitions in major cities “It’s not commonplace,” Westin said. dio have the potential, but they might mile swath through the northwest and north cen- across the nation. The convention makes “You have to have kids at a certain level, have a while to go before they can move tral parts of the state. Gov. Ted Strickland was to its way to Denver every year and is how we want them to want to come back.” tour more of the damaged areas Sunday. Lazzarini met Mimi Westin, the owner of Certainly, the dancers at Westin’s stu- See DANCE on Page 3 "What I've tried to do and what we've all tried

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Weather Campus Blotter Campus eye From the CSU Police Today Department Isolated T-Storms Thursday, August 23 83 | 59 Laurel Street. Alarm to business. Center Avenue. Suspicious Tuesday circumstances/prowler. PM T-Storms Meridan Avenue. Suspicious circumstances/prowler. 80 | 57 Center Avenue. Criminal mischief.

Wednesday Plum Street. Motor vehicle Scattered T-Storms accident with no injuries. Welfare check, Plum Street.

75 | 57 Harrassment, Laurel Street.

Theft on Laurel Street. Friday, August 24

Burglary in Progress on Laurel Street.

Oval Drive. Motor vehicle accident - hit and run.

Alarm to business. Plum Street . Center Avenue. Motor vehicle Tash accident - hit and run 4-7 p.m. Saturday, August 25

Center Avenue. DUI Arrest. Against Pollution KATiE STEVENS | CoLLEGIAN 7-9 p.m. Plum Street. Alarm Contact. Caleb Bond, a senior construction management major and third basemen, focuses on a baseball during a batting practice drill as Wes Castle, a senior business finance major and catcher, tosses the ball at CSU’s ball field on Sunday. The CSU club Plum Street. Disturbance. baseball team is preparing for their first game, an away game, at Trinidad, September 9. Cosmic Trail Suspicious circumstances/ 7-11 p.m. prowler on Laurel Street Research Center: From I-25, be presented by Dr. Barry L. ago dispensed with the notion man Development Institute, Harrassment, Laurel Street. exit east at exit #271 (Mountain Zink, Department of Physics of Gross National Product as a which began work May 30. Alphabet Soup Vista Dr.) Enter at the second & Astronomy, University of gauge of well-being. The king “People’s ability to be an 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. Calendar drive way on the north side of Denver.Location: Hammond decreed that his people would agent, to act on behalf of what the road. (this is not ARDEC) Auditorium, AR120 Engineering aspire to Gross National Hap- matters to them, is fundamen- Today, August 27 For more information, please Bldg. Sponsored by the CSU piness instead. tal,” said Alkire. But if people Sensible Modes of Alternative call Frank Stonaker at 970-491- Department of Physics. For That kernel of Buddhist say money can’t buy happiness, Road Transportation 7068 Special thanks to: USDA further information, please wisdom is increasingly finding they’re only partially right. 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How the Climate “In much the same way that Finland, all countries with high non-profit organizations, student Contact Frank Stonaker at: System Works research of consumer unions per capita income. organizations and Colorado [email protected] 4:00 p.m. helps you to make the best buy, At the other end of the scale State University offices that or (970) 491-7068. Professor Scott Denning will happiness research can help are much poorer countries: Tune into channel 11 support sensible modes of lecture on How the Climate you make the best choices,” Tanzania rated 3.2, behind from 8 - midnight for transportation.There will be free Interdisciplinary System Works in the Lory said Ruut Veenhoven, who Zimbabwe, Moldova, Ukraine giveaways and demo’s, as well Water Resources Seminar Student Center, Room 213-15 created the World Database of and Armenia. The United CTV News, CTV Sports as opportunities to register bikes 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Office of Vice Happiness in 1999. 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Continued from Page 1 knows how to do jazz any- in Fort Collins doing what more,” he said. we’re doing,” Westin said. like Lazzarini. Yet, this is something he They must be doing some- “I’ve learned to use my plans on changing. thing right because the studio body in different ways than I “I am doing full 80’s jazz has been invited to perform could before,” McKenzie said. for JUMP this year,” he said. during halftime at the Orange “Some things aren’t as easy as “Clean, traditional jazz.” Bowl in January. they look.” For the time being, Laz- “It’s great for them because Sometimes, it’s about go- zarini is staying away from it’s fun to do a big event,” Wes- ing back to the fundamentals. music from decades past and, tin said. “I like teaching technique once the dancers learn the Westin Arts Academy will classes, a lot of times we don’t steps, they will begin perfect- showcase all of its dances, remember our basics,” Lazza- ing the pieces to prepare them including the three choreo- rini said. He prefers jazz and for competitions. “We want to graphed by Lazzarini, on Dec. lyrical dancing to any other, equip them with the tools they 8, at the Hensel Phelps Theatre and he finds that the tradition- need,” Westin said. at the Greeley Union Colony al jazz dance is difficult to find And guest choreographers Civic Center. in a dance world made up of can give the dancers, as well as Associate News Manag- “contemporary” performers. the studio, an advantage over ing Editor Jessi Stafford can “People are so caught up in other studios. be reached at news@collegian. contemporary dance, nobody “There really isn’t anyone com.

Bryan Walton | Ap A California Department of Forestry tanker drops a load of fire retardant on a fire off of Highway WarMInG | City remains optimistic 1 and Santa Rosa Road south of Lompoc, Calif., on Monday.

Continued from Page 1 national movements, Udall thus improve their resilience,” said. and implements the compli- oversold this whole climate “Good skeptics play an im- mentary strategies of mitiga- FIrE | change and global warming portant role in science. They tion and adaptation. Firefighters gain ground thing.” knock down theories that Mitigation is the process of The program, Climate Re- should not stand,” he said. slowing and ultimately stop- Continued from Page 1 controlling its northwest cor- percent. silient Communities (CRC), “But no one has been able to ping the effects of climate ner. Sparks from equipment is being led by ICLEI – Local knock a hole in this theory, and change, which includes imple- Comerford said another The fire was about 15 being used to repair a water Governments for Change, an it becomes a stronger theory menting emissions reduction spot fire erupted up on a re- miles away from the com- pipe ignited the blaze north international association of as a result.” plans. mote ridgeline called Forest- munity of Ojai and did not of Los Olivos on July 4. local governments committed Despite the dispute sur- Adaptation is the process ers Leap, but fire crews had it threaten any other large com- About 2,500 firefight- to sustainable development. rounding climate change, Fort of planning to make the com- under control. munities, officials said. ers, aided by aircraft, were Fort Collins recently became Collins Mayor Doug Hutchin- munity more climate-resilient Air tankers and helicop- Despite its size, the fire fighting the fire. Costs have one of only four cities in the son, who is also part of the by addressing issues of erosion ters were able to slow the Zaca has only destroyed one struc- reached $101 million. U.S. to take part in CRC. Those statewide Colorado Climate and flooding, among others. fire’s movement east, and ture, an outbuilding.The hu- Costs have reached $101 communities are considered Project, stands by the city’s Kenne, N.H., is the most firefighters gained ground in midity on Saturday was 20 million. “pilot” cities, as the program is new program. advanced city in the program expected to expand. “The issue is not necessari- and has almost completed the “The program is to improve ly about if global warming is an milestone process. Once com- a community’s preparedness absolute fact or not. Most of plete, officials there will moni- for the climate impacts that these things make good sense tor and reevaluate the city’s they’re facing now and will be to do even independent of that program, which could benefit StorM | Five people reported injured facing in the near and distant issue,” Hutchinson said. “I’m other pilot cities like Fort Col- future,” said Margit Hentschel, a real believer that we can ap- lins. Hentschel and Udall said Continued from Page 1 ties said. The weather service seen houses that have trees regional director for ICLEI. “ … proach these issues in a way water management is the pri- confirmed tornadoes touched go right through them,” she Fort Collins has been a leader that is good for the climate as mary focus of the CRC pro- down Friday in at least six ar- said. Only residents were be- on climate change for more well as the economy. That’s a gram in Fort Collins. to do is let these folks know eas of the state. One of the ing allowed into the city, she than 10 years.” great approach.” “Adapting to climate ... that we are working to get twisters cut a path a quarter- said. Gray, a world-renowned change in water resources will assistance to them as rapidly mile wide, snapping and up- Matt McClanahan’s home expert in hurricane prediction the Plan be a challenge,” Udall said. as possible,” Strickland said rooting hundreds of trees, the in Michigan’s Cohoctah and atmospheric science, is Taxpayers, Hutchinson “Particularly because of popu- Saturday. weather service said. Township was among at least infamous for being a thorn in said, aren’t funding the project. lation change in this region. … Powerful storms rolling Five people were reported 17 destroyed by a twister. the side of global warming the- NOAA, which funds climate Every drop of water in this re- through the Upper Midwest injured in Michigan’s Eaton “I’ve seen devastation orists, despite his strong ties to research across the country, is gion is claimed by somebody.” during most of the past week County. A dozen homes were and I’ve helped clean up, but the Fort Collins community. funding the program. For more information caused disastrous floods from destroyed and seven were I’ve never seen it be me,” he Ultimately, Gray said, city The CRC program follows about the program, visit www. southeastern Minnesota to heavily damaged, Sheriff said. officials should slow down un- what they call a five-milestone iclei.org. Ohio that were blamed for at Mike Raines said. “I bought a bottle of Jim til science provides more evi- system to help cities “develop Staff writer James Holt can least 18 deaths. Damage in Fenton, Mich., Beam and it’s in the house. I dence. their capacity to identify and be reached at news@collegian. In southern Michigan, was extensive, Mayor Sue Os- could really use a sip of that “I’m very skeptical global reduce vulnerabilities, and com. about 42,000 customers still warming is coming,” he said. lacked power Sunday, utili- born said Saturday. “I have right now.” “… And I don’t think anyone knows how to plan for it. Whether you plan for it to get warmer or colder or wetter or dryer … nobody knows what’s going to happen in the future and I don’t know how you’re going to plan for this.” Despite debate over whether global warming is a legitimate political concern, city leaders remain optimistic in their plans to thwart climate change. the Debate The City Hall kickoff event featured presentations by Hentschel and Brad Udall, director of Western Water As- sessment for the U.S. Depart- ment of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric As- sociation (NOAA). “Anybody who is paying attention can hardly open a newspaper without seeing an article on climate change,” Udall said at the event. “It’s a problem because it affects the entire way in which our current society operates … Cli- mate change is an enormous problem that will be with us for the next 100 years.” And “deniers” like Gray aren’t going stop the local and Collegian

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your two cents yesterday’s results: How are you going to enjoy the first weekend after classes? Way to stay sober, CSU 42% I’m going out partying! 21% I will be going on a date with Sports Editor Sean Star. A lot of time and money has been Despite the overwhelming presence they seem to be working. 18% Enjoy my weekend? Ha - I have to work. spent on discouraging irresponsible of cops patrolling the mean streets of What’s more, a lot of cash was re- 15% I have a hot date with my bio textbook. partying at CSU. And it the Fort on Friday and Saturday night, cently spent to find out just how much 4% I will be reading the this column Collegian. might just be working, at represents there was only one DUI to report. a Ram parties these days. Based on this the views of + least after the first week- the collegian’s Thankfully, there were no alcohol- weekend’s preliminary results, the find- end. editorial board. related deaths nor riots to speak of. ings of that study may be more sober After a long, hard week So here’s to you, the student body, than anticipated. (, of collecting syllabi, it’s possible that for starting off the fall semester on a All weekend talk aside, though, be- +) (/ some students may have felt the urge to good, safe note. Let this past weekend cause it’s Monday once again. But this go out and party. set a precedent for the remainder of the time around, work has actually been as- )( For those that did so, they seemed to year. signed… Ah, the earliest phase of pro- have been responsible about it, for the Programs like Ram Ride were created crastination begins. If only every week today’s question: Do you think you can dance? most part. to improve unsafe partying at CSU and was as easy as the first. Log on to collegian.com to give us your two cents.

“There’s only one thing that could bring out such a change in our old cold-hearted friend – she must smell election season around the corner.” Rep. Musgrave finally comes around, almost

She’s anxiously trying to convince voters and the press that she has turned a new leaf, but unfortunately, her own personal record doesn’t jive with this new image she is trying to sell. According to the Wash- ington Post’s vote database By sean reed on their Web site, Musgrave, despite her new bipartisan Another one bites the focus, has voted party line dust. 96 percent of the time. After four years and That’s not exactly a re- thousands of deaths, Presi- cord that inspires trust. dent Bush lost another loyal In addition, it’s hard to supporter when Fort Collins take her current Iraq stance ‘di’s death still tragic’ reminds Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has seriously, especially when finally shown her first sign of she seems to be suggesting intelligence. the possibility of a future Last Thursday, Mus- troop withdrawal, when, ac- grave admitted to the Edito- cording to the Washington mail order collector’s plate rial Board of the Fort Collins Post, just one month ago she Coloradoan that she was voted against giving troops Sure, there have been must be this white and famous strange paradox – she attained “discouraged” with the war time to come home to visit countless instances where for us to give a crap.” And oh, this messianic pleasantness by in Iraq and that “we may be their families between de- more people have died at once, what an invaluable thing to caring. talking very differently” in ployments to Iraq. and countless others in which have! It has circumvented so People that still cry over the next few months about Just to give a bit of per- people have died in grislier many awkward conversations “Candle in the Wind” certainly the situation in Iraq. spective, 190 of the “no” ways. with Africa. care about Diana, but only as This admission is par- votes in the 229-194 deci- But judging from the mil- None of this is to say she an idol, not an example. ticularly momentous due to sion to allow troops the lions still personally devas- was without fault. The manner in which she fact that Musgrave, in the guaranteed time came from By ryan nowell tated by Diana’s death, one can For one, the hair. For an- cared for people is warmly ad- past, has been one the war’s Republicans. glean that those other deaths other, once in a BBC interview mired, but rarely aspired to, biggest proponents, once Given that this is such weren’t all they could’ve been. she was quoted as saying she meaning those that will be in- warning that reconsidering an established pattern of That’s not to say they wanted to be known as “the consolable this Friday have de- the war in Iraq would “em- behavior for Musgrave, I just Friday, August 31, marks weren’t sad, mind you; they queen of hearts,” a remark so cided it’s better to mourn the bolden the terrorists.” find it hard to believe that the 10th anniversary of the car just weren’t ballad sad. You self-aggrandizing it’s equaled loss of a humanitarian rather There’s only one thing she is really changing. crash that claimed Lady Di- don’t see Elton John reworking only by Michael Stipe’s late- than actually be one. that could bring out such Her changes probably ana’s life. The event sparked an “Get Back Honky Cat” to me- ’80’s claims of superman-hood Which makes crying over a change in our old cold- have more to do with the unprecedented level of mourn- morialize the hundreds killed and Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s her death an ultimately empty hearted friend – she must unpopularity of the war and ing across the globe and all in northern Iraq’s recent sui- embarrassing “Call me Mad gesture. smell election season around the negativity the Republi- but silenced detractors of her cide bombings, do you? Dog” phase. So this Friday, let’s all swell the corner. can Party is experiencing as character and haircut. Sure, half a town got oblit- But despite her flaws, she our hearts to ten times their Why else would this a result. Now, with a barrage of ret- erated, but were any of them has continued to mean some- size and glut grief and com- woman, who by all accounts An Associated Press- rospectives and memorials fast princesses? Were they ever in- thing very special to those who passion upon a poor, fallen, hasn’t cared one way or an- Ipsos poll from this month approaching that are sure to volved with JFK Jr.? Did they do have kept her memory alive in insanely rich woman that once other about popular opinion found that only 39 percent of be sad in more ways than one, the landmine thing and hold their hearts. tried to help the embattled and on the subject of Iraq, has Americans support the con- it’s time for us to take a mo- hands with AIDS patients? No, You see, every demograph- unfortunate. Who are all still come around so abruptly? tinuation of the war effort. ment and reflect on what the they were just plain, old, bor- ic has their tragic figures to out there struggling, never in Of course, this is just the This combined with the world has learned from losing ing people that lived plain, old, bereave. Sports fans have Lou short supply. newest of many changes fact that Democrats have “the People’s Princess,” as she boring lives, and pretty soon, Gering. Revolutionaries have Too bad caring is as passé that started over the sum- listed Musgrave’s seat as was endearingly called by the they’ll just be a big digit in last Che. Rockers have Janis. Bad as seatbelts. mer with dear old Marilyn. one of the most valuable in industry that killed her. week’s newspaper. comedians have Jon Ritter. The Denver Post took the upcoming election have First and foremost, I think That’s what makes Diana’s Diana is the martyr-in- Ryan Nowell is a junior Eng- note of many of these made these recent changes a we can all agree that her death memory so special; she’s like a residence of those who aspire lish major. His column appears changes in a report early in necessity. was the most tragic thing to great, glittering banner draped to niceness. That is really her Mondays in the Collegian. Let- the summer, pointing to her She realizes that if she happen in the course of hu- over our nation that announc- one prodigious quality; she ters and feedback can be sent to criticism of President Bush, wants to be reelected, she man history, ever. es to the rest of the world “you was pleasant. But therein lies a [email protected] pictures with Democrats like needs to reflect the values of Mark Udall, and of course, her constituency. her constant repetition of Now she just needs to the word “bipartisan.” actually start reflecting these letter to the editor A glance on her Web site values. shows more of the same. You call 29 freshmen dis- If your number was picked, Housing not only found them social life is important. But se- Her recent press re- Editorials Editor Sean placed for 5 days a housing you got kicked out of housing a place to live in less than a riously, if you become socially leases from the summer all Reed is a junior political sci- problem? to find your own place to live week, but gave them a place to inept from living in temporary mention either her efforts ence major. His column ap- At my undergrad college, (cost of living out there is about crash in the meantime and of- housing for 5 days, then you to “bridge the political gap” pears Mondays in the Col- the University of New Hamp- twice as much as it is here). fered to help them move again. started that way. or how she is working with legian. Letters and feedback shire, if there was an overflow A lot more than 29 students I say they did an awesome job Democrats to pass veterans can be sent to letters@colle- of freshmen, the upperclass- were displaced—permanently with a tough situation. Laura Gustafson bills. gian.com men were put into a lottery. —and without any help. CSU I get it: moving sucks, and a Ph.D. Chemistry Student

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OPINIONMonday, August 27, 2007 | Page 5A STAFF AND FACULTY EDITION

STAFF COLUMN FACULTY COLUMN Sign up for Citizen’s Academy “From that invitation you can tell a lot about the teaching style Subjects covered at the police department program. As Atticus Finch said in To academy include crime lab I have been a criminal Kill a Mockingbird, “You nev- of the instructor. It can tell you and communication cen- defense attorney going on er really understand a person ter presentations and tours, twelve years, so I naturally until you consider things police community relations, have a different philosophy from his point of view – until a lot about how the instructor Colorado Revised Statutes, and a different approach than you climb into his skin and Constitutional Rights (arrest, those in law enforcement. walk around in it.” wants to create the climate of search, and seizure), intro- Two examples: A more humorous mod- By ROB LOWREY duction to fi rearms, K-9 dem- 1. A pamphlet handed ern adaptation of this notion the classroom.” onstration, patrol procedures, out by CSUPD suggests full goes like this: “Never criti- The more we as a commu- illegal drugs, alcohol aware- cooperation with the police cize someone until you have nity learn about our rights, the ness, police diversity, and ar- including politely answering walked a mile in their shoes. more we value the different rest control/use of force poli- all questions, while I advise That way, when they react, philosophies at play, and the cies (including the Taser). people to politely exercise you’ll be a mile away and you more we recognize these hu- Classes meet for two their right to remain silent. will have their shoes.” Teachers should man elements of law enforce- hours on eleven Thursday 2. That same pamphlet Whether you want to be a ment, the better our relation- evenings (plus one Saturday advises everyone to always cop or a lawyer, an engineer ships with our campus police at the fi ring range) over the answer the door when the po- or a fashion designer, if you offi cers will become. That’s Fall semester. Prerequisites lice show up, while I remind are a CSU citizen interested not stand behind where the Citizen’s Academy to qualifying for the academy people that they are no more in how your campus police comes in. include: required to answer the door force ticks, the Citizen’s Acad- The Colorado State Uni- 1. Be CSU faculty, staff, than they are required to an- emy is an experience you will versity Police Department or at least a sophomore with a swer the telephone. neither forget nor regret. For has announced that its 2007 2.5 GPA Even with these differ- more information, and to ac- titles, status Citizen’s Academy will begin 2. Have a desire to learn ences, likely because of them, cess the online application, September 13th. about law enforcement the academy was an incred- go to police.colostate.edu/ 3. Commit to attending ible opportunity for me to see CitizensAcademy. This is the second year of away from the white board. all 12 classes our campus police offi cers the program and, since I was I fi nd that many who stand 4. Pass a background in their own element, under- Rob Lowrey is an attorney fortunate enough to partici- at the white board who can put check stand how they think and op- for Student Legal Services. pate last year, I wanted to take those three letters after their I can’t say enough positive erate behind the scenes, and SLS writes a column biweekly this opportunity to strongly name are too full of themselves things about my experience gain a new appreciation for Mondays. Letters and Feed- encourage students, faculty, and are not respectful of those in the academy last year, even the commitment they have to back can be sent to letters@ and staff to apply before the “lowly others” (the students) though many would consider their diffi cult and often dan- collegian.com deadline this Friday, August on whom our profession re- me an unlikely pitchman for a gerous jobs. 31, at 5pm. lies. By ANNE MARIE MERLINE I hear reports time and time again of “professors” who walk Take note of how you are into the classroom and tell the invited into the classroom – of students they don’t want to be how the human at the white- there, and that students better board invites you to address just shut up and listen. him or her. I have heard, from two From that invitation you former students that a micro- can tell a lot about the teach- biology “professor” who would ing style of the instructor. It not let the students ask ques- can tell you a lot about how the tions during the exams, which instructor wants to create the would have given the students climate of the classroom. It the ability to understand what even tells you a lot about how was being asked of them so the instructor wants to treat they could answer the ques- you. tions with all of the informa- The paradigm for being a tion they needed. student is treated much more Yes, these are professors simply. who are allowed to profess You’re either a bachelor’s without the input, and ques- student, a master’s student, or tions, and discussion that are a doctoral student. all a part of the learning pro- As students, we all fall un- cess. der the same name, the same Since the day that I walked status. into the classroom I have had This does not hold true for my students call me by my the person at the front of the birth name. My parents, obvi- room. The person at the white ously, were not astute enough board could be an instructor, to name me “Doctor,” so I fi nd a lecturer, an associate profes- it an unnecessary name in the sor, an assistant professor, or a classroom. professor. That title tends to demar- We are not called teachers. cate the line between student It was a professor of mine, and the human at the white Betty H. Zisk who teaches at board, a line that I do not feel Boston University, who be- comfortable with. came my advisor for the Ph.D. One student, out of the because of the way that she hundreds that I have shared connects with her students. the classroom with refuses to Betty teaches political sci- call me “Anne Marie.” The fi rst ence and is widely published semester I had him as a stu- about local politics, peace ini- dent, I let it go. tiatives, and against war at all I let it go because I rea- GUEST COLUMN costs. soned that he was a fi rst se- It is not what she teaches mester student, he seemed a that I write about, but her at- little shy, and all students face “We will have to rebuild our homes and businesses to become titude about teaching that is a diffi cult transition from high always in the back of my mind school protocol. more energy e cient. We will have to give up personal elds of while I teach my students. At the start of a second Although she has been a semester together, I took him water wasting lawns.” full professor for the better aside and had a heartfelt con- part of my life, she articulated versation about how respect and demonstrated to me that comes not from a title or ini- she is a teacher, and not a pro- tials after one’s name. fessor. She teaches, she does He comes from the martial not profess. arts tradition where the sensei e last Fourteener in Colorado Semantics, perhaps, but in is one to be revered on all lev- our weather systems. have to adapt to a new en- We might have to stop my opinion there is a big dif- els. By Jesse Fagan I think the common per- vironment. We will have to trucking our food everywhere ference in how she presents This title is also used to ception of global climate change the way we live. Not and maybe build some better herself to her students, and the address somebody who is a Start climbing your Four- change (or the misnomer because we “should” but rails. respect that she commands in teacher, outside of the martial teeners now. ‘global warming’) is a cata- because we will have little We might even have to the classroom, because of her arts. Perhaps this title is one If Greenland melts we clysmic life-ending holo- choice. Being ‘green’ will very move production of food clos- humility. I could be more comfortable lose at least 7 of those claims caust, tantamount to nuclear soon be synonymous with er and stop relying on intense When I fi nished my Ph.D. with. to fame. And if Antarctica war, asteroid collisions, or a ‘economic.’ preservatives and refrigerated I taught at Front Range Com- Another student, who is thaws, a less likely scenario, Decepticon invasion. Energy and economics semis. munity College. also a good friend of mine calls then we’ll lose 36 of ‘em. But far from the end of life are so closely related, there is Jeez, that sucks. I still remember the day I me “Dr. Merline” in his attempt Why? Because Four- as we know it, global climate little point in distinguishing It won’t be the end of the walked into the classroom af- to tease me. teener means 14,000 feet or change will mark a change them. And we as a nation are world. It will just be the be- ter I defended my dissertation. Take note of how the hu- higher above sea level. If sea in the way our society runs wasting so much of it on inef- ginning of a different world. I felt legitimate and at the top man at the white board asks level rises, then mountains itself. fi cient design, in our cities, in It will happen gradually. of my game. to be addressed. If this person “shrink.” Greenland has at There are two realizations our industry, and in lives. The feedback system of peo- But don’t be fooled. Just does not make it clear, ask. Be about 20 feet of sea level ris- that we as citizens (and not We will have to rebuild ples’ habits and their wallets because you have the ability wary of the titles that some ing ice on it, and Antarctica consumers) need to come our homes and businesses will respond to the changing to jump through the hoops for stand behind. has about 200 feet. to. Global climate change is to become more energy effi - energy prices and scarcity of two or three academic degrees, Respect should come not They won’t all disappear - occurring and accelerating. cient. We will have to give up previously cheap resources. does not mean that you can from the title but the actions we’d still have about 17 of our Technology is not going to fi x personal fi elds of water wast- All I ask is that we grant teach. behind the title. Fourteeners left if all the ice anything. ing lawns. some attention and trust to Unlike the public educa- melts. But even a 10% drop We can’t wait for some We will have to move clos- same scientifi c methods that tion system, teaching at a col- Anne Marie Merline is an in ice will force us to move miracle hydrogen economy. er to where we work. We will gave us our cell phones and lege or a university requires instructor for the University the ‘Mile High’ marker some- We can’t sit back and dream have to make our cities public antibiotics, and climb some credentialed knowledge, but it Honors Program. Her column where else. of atmospheric carbon scrub- spaces worth living in. mountains while we wait. does not require any teaching appears biweekly in the Col- I don’t mean to bring this bers. We will have to live closer experience or ability to relate legian. Letters and feedback up as an alarmist, but I do We can’t rely on fantasies together and learn our baris- Jesse Fagan is a sociology to any human being in a way can be sent to letters@collegian. want readers to take notice. of solar and wind and the en- ta’s names. We will have to graduate student. Letters and that respects those further com In the coming decades we are ergy killer called recycling. become neighbors again. feedback can be sent to let- going to see large changes in Instead we are going to Sucks, right? [email protected]

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Q & A cSu interpreter works with her hands

By LaureL Berch Front Range Community Col- A: Gardening, crocheting, miles a day. I’ve only been Rocky Mountain Collegian A: Well that’s a kind of funny lege in Westminster is one of bubble baths, eating, cook- driving that far for five years Q: What is one thing you story because growing up I the premier interpreter prepa- ing. Taking care of Bessie, my because before I lived in Love- couldn’t live without? Q: Do you prefer to never knew a deaf ration programs around. It cow. She gets so excited when land. It takes about an hour be called Donalyn or person and I nev- was one of the first ones estab- she knows I’m in the garden and forty minutes, but I love A: Bubble baths. My pamper- Dede? er knew there was lished in the United States. because she knows I’m going my job. ing for myself is bubble baths a sign language. to bring her some corn leaves with my little dish or chocolate. A: Dede. Nobody calls When I was 21 we Q: So you used to teach Amer- and corn ears, and she just Q: What are your goals for the The other night I ate home- me Donalyne but my moved to Colo- ican Sign Language. Why do loves those things. future? made ice cream with chocolate mom. And that’s only rado, and I started you think that’s an important and Reese’s peanut butter cups when I’m in trouble. I working at Foot- class? Q: Tell me more about Bessie. A: To keep adding more sec- in the bath tub. think because I had so hills Gateway Re- tions of sign language class many siblings when I habilitation Cen- A: It’s important because there A: Bessie is my cow. I would and I’d love to see a certificate Q: What’s your favorite food? was younger and they ter. There were are a lot of people who com- say she’s probably 950 pounds. program with the American couldn’t say Donalyne. DeDe KLiewer several people municate using American Sign She was in the cow herd on the Sign Language. A: Meat and potatoes. Mashed there who were Language. I mean it is third ranch and after her last baby I think people in the busi- potatoes are probably my fa- Q: What is your job at nonverbal. Some most widely used language was born she had calcium de- ness department, people in vorite. CSU? were deaf and some weren’t, in the United States…If more ficiency and she couldn’t stand the social work department, but I wanted to find a way people knew how to commu- up. So we took water and food people in the education de- Q: Do you have any funny sto- A: I am the coordinator of in- to communicate with those nicate with [deaf people] they to her twice a day for three partment, people in pre-med, ries from interpreting? terpreting services. It entails nonverbal people and have would be able to be involved months and she still wasn’t pre-law—all of them could making sure all the deaf and them be able to communicate. in so many more things. How getting up. really benefit from knowing A: Well we are going to write a hearing impaired students and There was an audiologist who many times do you talk to the So one day my husband, sign language. Just think if you book as interpreters and our staff have interpreters when had worked for the Colorado people waiting in the lunch Gary, took the shot gun down were deaf and you had to talk book’s going to be titled “No I they need or have equal access School of Deaf and Blind and line with you, or somebody there because we thought, to a lawyer about something. Won’t Hold Your Iguana,” be- to whatever they need (wheth- so she would teach us sign lan- walking to class? They don’t “she can’t get up, there’s noth- Having somebody there com- cause we get asked to do a lot er it’s sign language interpret- guage during our lunch hours. have that opportunity with ing that can be done, she’s a municate with you just makes of things. ers, oral interpreters, note tak- Then I found out that there was just anybody, so the more peo- lost cause.” So he got to her, it a lot more personal. One time I was interpreting ers, real time captionist). It’s to a class at Front Range and so I ple they can talk to; the more she stood up. So, he put the a tennis class and a girl had to make sure that campus does went to that class and it was social they can be. gun back in the truck and we Q: What is the most rewarding bring her iguana because they not present them with ob- taught by a deaf woman. She continued feeding her and giv- part of your job? were inspecting her apartment stacles to prevent them from told me there was a job using Q: How would you describe ing her water. She’s our watch and she wasn’t allowed to have learning. sign language which I never Deaf Culture? cow. If I get home and if Gary A: Oh man, there’re a lot of it, and the teacher kept say- heard of a sign language inter- is not in the yard, I’ll ask her them. When students gradu- ing, “Here just hold this.” And Q: Do you also interpret for preter before. But that’s how A: Proud of being deaf. Not where he’s at, and whatever ate, I cry. Just to see them come I kept saying, “I’m sorry I can’t students on campus? I got involved. I took some deafness as a disability, just way she’s facing, east or west, in as freshmen and see what hold it. My hands are busy.” classes and decided that’s what deafness as having a different that’s which way he went on kinds of things they learn and He kept trying to get me to A: Yes. I’ve been here fifteen I wanted to do. way of communicating. Deaf the ranch. watch them grow and watch hold the iguana, because he years. I did my internship here people don’t need fixed…It’s them mature and watch them didn’t get that I needed my and never left. Q: What is the process of be- about identity and being proud Q: Wow, so you live on a ranch. blossom is just so cool…When hands [to sign]…I did have a coming an interpreter? of who you are. How far away from campus is students get excited about sign broken wrist one year and the Q: What got you involved with that? language and want to learn it. I students said I was stuttering. sign language and the pro- A: I’ve been through the inter- Q: What are your hobbies? would teach everybody, every- Laurel Berch can be reached grams at CSU? preter preparation program. A: It’s 80 miles. So I drive 160 thing, all day long if I could. at [email protected]. Clinton: Money, new policies can improve health care quality

By hOLLY raMer they expect at a cost they can The Associated Press afford.” “We need a system that encourages “Too often, and in too many LEBANON, N.H. – Hillary places, our health care system instead of discourages quality.” Rodham Clinton promised hurts us instead of helps us,” Thursday that as president Clinton said at Dartmouth- she would improve health care Hitchcock Medical Center. “It Hillary Rodham Clinton quality by raising standards for hurts doctors, who aren’t re- New York Senator providers, educating patients warded for providing the best and requiring insurers to re- care and are often punished ward innovation. for it financially. It hurts nurses of $300 million to expand en- Patients, too, can play a While rivals Barack Obama who are asked to work longer rollment in nursing schools, role in improving the qual- and John Edwards have pro- hours, caring for more patients create mentoring programs for ity of health care they receive, posed detailed health care with fewer resources. And it recent graduates and recruit she said, if they are given more overhaul plans, Clinton is tak- hurts patients, who are forced more minorities into the pro- information about their treat- ing an incremental approach. to make complicated medical fession. ment options. She praised She started with a speech in decisions without basic infor- “The nursing shortage has Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Center June on reducing costs, fol- mation about their conditions become a nursing crisis, and for Shared Decision Making, lowed by Thursday’s address and options.” that means it is a crisis for ev- saying she would like to see on quality, and will outline her To improve quality, Clinton eryone,” Clinton said. “Our similar programs nationwide. plan for universal health care said she would promote physi- nurses are truly the eyes and Clinton also called for coverage next month. cian certification programs ears, and in many ways the overhauling a reimbursement “My order here is deliber- that help doctors keep up with heart and soul of our health system that she said often the latest advancements, in- care system. When we’ve got punishes doctors for doing the ate,” said Clinton, a New York LiSa POOLe | AP senator. “In order to forge a creasing Medicare reimburse- fewer nurses, working longer right thing _ spending time consensus on universal health ments for doctors who par- hours and serving more pa- with patients or working with Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes care, we need to assure people ticipate in them. Nursing care tients, the result can be worse their colleagues to take a col- hands during a fundraiser, Saturday, at the Tabernacle at Oak that they will get the quality would get a boost in the form outcomes.” laborative approach. Bluffs, a town on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

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HUNTINGTON, Utah – What next? That was the question remaining after a drill punched a sixth hole through a mine shaft and found no sign of six miners last seen before a massive collapse nearly three weeks ago. Federal safety officials told families of the missing miners they would conduct testing - air samples, signal- ing in hopes of a response from the men, and dropping a video camera into the mine shaft - but have been less than hopeful about the results, which were expected to be announced Sunday. “The only thing they told us is there is no void where the sixth hole is; there is no space,” attorney Colin King said after a meeting between the missing miners’ families he represents and mine officials. Crandall Canyon Mine co-owner Bob Murray has said this hole, the sixth to be drilled deep into the mountain, will be the last effort to find a sign of the miners, who may not have survived the massive cave-in Aug. 6. Families have pleaded with Murray not to halt rescue efforts, and King said officials did not rule out the possibility of a seventh bore hole. “They left the possibility open that they were possibly considering another hole,” King said. “It didn’t sound like that was uppermost on their list of to-dos.” Drilling on the sixth nar- row inch hole was completed late Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Labor said, reaching a depth of more than 1,700 feet. Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy Corp., co- owner of the Crandall Canyon mine, said he had no comment on the initial findings from the sixth hole. Previous holes have yield- ed only grainy video images and poor air samples. Efforts to signal the miners have been met with silence. Tunneling into the mine was abandoned after another collapse killed three rescue workers and injured six others on Aug. 16. “It is one of my major goals and the families’ major goal to get them out. ... We will vigorously resist any attempt to seal this mine so that we can keep those options open,” said King, who has been retained by most of the miners’ families.

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“There isn’t an ability to move north in any significant numbers without abandoning Baghdad. ”

Nora Bensahel | Military analyst at the Rand Corp. Violence in Iraq down from last year

tary headway, but extremist 31. the past few months. factions are far from broken. However, Brig. Gen. Rich- The insurgents have made Bloodshed in Baghdad is down, but In street-level terms, it ard Sherlock, deputy director a “concerted effort to concen- means life for average Iraqis for operational planning for trate attacks in other parts of appears to be even more peril- the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of the country,” Bensahel said, attacks around the country have doubled ous and unpredictable. Staff, said violence in Iraq “has in part to escape the increased The AP tracking includes continued to decline and is U.S. troop presence in Bagh- ble the pace from a year ago. ago, according to figures com- Iraqi civilians, government at the lowest level since June dad and in part to give the im- By STEVEN R. HURST Some of the recent blood- piled by The Associated Press. officials, police and security 2006.” pression that no place in Iraq The Associated Press shed appears the result of mili- The tallies and trends offer forces killed in attacks such He offered no statistics to is safe. tant fighters drifting into parts a sobering snapshot after an as gunfights and bombings, back his claim, but in a brief- Mostly, she said, the insur- BAGHDAD - This year’s of northern Iraq, where they additional 30,000 U.S. troops which are frequently blamed ing with reporters at the Pen- gents have shifted their focus U.S. troop buildup has suc- have fled after U.S.-led offen- began campaigns in February on Sunni suicide strikes. It also tagon on Friday he warned to the Baghdad suburbs, but ceeded in bringing violence sives. to regain control of the Bagh- includes execution-style kill- insurgents might try intensify they are particularly keen to in Baghdad down from peak Baghdad, however, still ac- dad area. It also highlights one ings – largely the work of Shiite attacks in Iraq to coincide with undermine the notion that levels, but the death toll from counts for slightly more than of the major themes expected death squads. three milestones: the sixth an- northern Iraq is a “success sto- sectarian attacks around the half of all war-related killings _ in next month’s Iraq progress The figures are considered niversary of the Sept. 11 at- ry” for Washington and its key country is running nearly dou- the same percentage as a year report to Congress: some mili- a minimum based on AP re- tacks in the U.S., the beginning Iraqi partners – including the porting. The actual numbers of Ramadan and the report to Kurds who have maintained a are likely higher, as many kill- Congress. near-autonomous state in the ings go unreported or un- The U.S. military did not north since the early 1990s. counted. Insurgent deaths are get all the additional American Staging attacks in the north not a part of the Iraqi count. forces into Iraq until June 15, so “has a symbolic effect,” she The findings include: it would be premature to draw said. Iraq is suffering about dou- a final statistical picture of the And beyond that, Bensahel ble the number of war-related effect of the added troops. said the tactic puts the United deaths throughout the coun- But initial calculations States in a difficult situation. try compared with last year an validate fears that the Baghdad “There isn’t an ability to average daily toll of 33 in 2006, crackdown would push mili- move north in any significant and 62 so far this year. tants into districts north of the numbers without abandoning Nearly 1,000 more people capital, including Diyala prov- Baghdad” – a change in strat- have been killed in violence ince where U.S. force and Iraqi egy that Washington is not pre- across Iraq in the first eight soldiers have conducted major pared to make, she said. months of this year than in all operation to clear its main city, But a huge problem also of 2006. So far this year, about Baqouba, of al-Qaida in Iraq looms in the south, the center 14,800 people have died in fighters. of Shiite political and spiritual war-related attacks and sectar- In July, the AP figures show influence and the site of Iraq’s ian murders. 35 percent of all war-related main oil fields. AP reporting accounted killings occurred in northern There are daily gunbattles for 13,811 deaths in 2006. The provinces. The figure one year between the Mahdi Army mili- United Nations and other ago was 22 percent. tia loyal to radical Shiite cleric sources placed the 2006 toll far The final death count for Muqtada al-Sadr and the Su- higher. August also will likely be fur- preme Islamic Iraqi Council, Baghdad has gone from ther oriented to the north af- the powerhouse Shiite political representing 76 percent of all ter the savage Aug. 14 attack party that controls most of the civilian and police war-related by suspected al-Qaida truck bureaucracy and police forces deaths in Iraq in January to 52 bombers near the Syrian bor- in southern Iraq. percent in July, bringing it back der in Ninevah province. This month, the governors to the same spot it was roughly At least 500 villagers from of two southern provinces a year ago. the Yazidi sect were killed in loyal to the Supreme Islamic According to the Iraqi Red the deadliest civilian attack of Council were killed in roadside Crescent Organization, the the war. bombings. number of displaced Iraqis has In the first months of this The clashes are expected more than doubled since the year, many extremists fled to to grow more intense as Brit- start of the year, from 447,337 Baghdad and regions to the ain draws downs its forces in on Jan. 1 to 1.14 million on July north after Sunni tribesmen southern Iraq over the coming in Anbar, the sprawling desert months. province west of the capital, The effect of the shrinking turned on their erstwhile al- British presence is already be- Qaida allies. Anthony Cord- ing felt, said Cordesman in an esman, an Iraq expert at the assessment released Aug. 22. Center for Strategic and Inter- “The end result was to turn national Studies in Washing- the four provinces in south- ton, said many militants are eastern Iraq over to feuding trying to hang onto footholds Shiite factions whose actions in central Iraq. were mixed with corruption, “Most of the force shifts extortion and links to criminal are still in the Baghdad ring activities,” he wrote. and Diyala,” he said in a recent And there are increasing interview, predicting more signs that whole regions of spectacular attacks in the days the south are inclined to seek leading to next month’s report increased autonomy from the to Congress by U.S. command- center moves that many Iraqis er Gen. David Petraeus and fear could lead to partition of Ambassador Ryan Crocker. the country. “Will it lead to more bloody In Najaf – the spiritual attacks as they try to exploit heart for Shiites around the the American political debate? world _the provincial spokes- Yes.” man, Ahmed Deibel, told AP Nora Bensahel, a military early this month that the gas analyst at the Rand Corp., said turbine generator there had that northern Iraq had become been removed from the na- increasingly destabilized over tional electricity grid.

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By RAHIM FAIEZ ning at its highest level since Afghan security forces and for- Afghans were injured. was missing, he said. The Associated Press U.S. forces invaded the coun- eign targets in Kabul. He said he did not know the In Ghazni province in the try in 2001 to oust the hard- A suicide car bomber nationalities of the foreigners east, police had killed 24 mili- “You cannot KABUL, Afghanistan - A line Islamic Taliban rulers, who rammed his vehicle into a con- or the extent of their injuries. tants, two of whom were be- string of bombings and gun had harbored al-Qaida leaders voy of two four-wheel drive In Kandahar province in lieved to be Arabs, over the last do it all with battles reported around Af- following the Sept. 11 attacks. Land Cruisers on a main road the south, insurgents attacked 24 hours, local police chief Ali ghanistan Saturday killed 41 Most of the violence is leading out of the capital Sat- a police patrol with a bomb Shah Ahmadzai said. ground troops. people and left at least six concentrated in southern or urday, said Ali Shah Paktaiwal, and then opened fire with au- Five insurgents were also wounded, including two for- eastern Afghanistan, where in- chief of criminal investigations tomatic weapons and rocket- killed in Badghis province, in Air support eigners hurt in a suicide bomb- surgents staged several attacks in the city. Interior Ministry propelled grenades, police the west, since Friday, a police ing near the capital. Saturday, but there have been spokesman Zemerai Bashary officer Umar Khan said. Eight official there said. Elsewhere Insurgent violence is run- occasional suicide attacks on said two foreigners and four officers were killed and one in Kandahar, a roadside bomb is an itegral killed two Afghans guarding a convoy carrying supplies for part of the NATO-led forces, according to provincial police chief Sayed o p e r a t i o n .” Aqa Saqib. In neighboring Helmand province, Afghan soldiers shot Col. Martin Schelleis and killed two suspected Tali- spokesman for NATO ban fighters planting a roadside bomb, said police officer Ghulam Wali. ine at possible technical, hu- British troops battling Tali- man or procedural errors. ban insurgents in southern The British troops have Helmand province Friday were been battling insurgents for hit by a U.S. bomb that killed months in Kajaki, a militant three soldiers and wounded hotspot where repairs are tak- two after they called for air ing place on a hydroelectric support. Coalition forces on dam that could supply close Saturday defended their reli- to 2 million Afghans with elec- ance on air power in the wake tricity. of the deaths, which came In 2002, four Canadian amid growing Afghan concerns soldiers were killed when an about civilian deaths from U.S. American F-16 pilot on a night airstrikes. patrol dropped a 500-pound Col. Martin Schelleis, chief bomb on Canadian troops spokesman of NATO’s 37- conducting a live-fire training nation strong mission in the exercise near the city of Kan- country, said air strikes were dahar. The pilot apparently essential given the limited mistook the Canadians for en- number of ground troops and emy forces, U.S. officials have rugged Afghan terrain.“You said.In August 2006, a bomb cannot do it all with ground mistakenly dropped by coali- troops,” he told a press confer- tion aircraft killed 10 Afghan ence. police officers on a patrol in “Air support is an integral the country’s southeast. part of the operation.” Schel- The cause of that incident leis said a probe would exam- has never been established.

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By JEREMY HAINSWORTH The balloon caught fire Don Randall, a resident of The Associated Press as it prepared to launch, said the trailer park who took pic- “The basket was Bill Yearwood, an investigator tures of the scene. “The bas- VANCOUVER, British Co- with the Transportation Safety ket was basically a fireball. It basically a fireball. lumbia – A hot air balloon Board of Canada. just dropped like a stone,” he It just dropped like burst into flames over west- “The crew loaded 12 pas- added. ern Canada, burning two passengers and was preparing to “I’m just thinking, ‘Oh geez, a stone.” sengers to death while their launch when a fire erupted. I hope there’s nobody in that families looked on, police said The pilot asked the passengers thing. It’s basically a burning Saturday. to get out of the basket,” he death up there,’” he said. Don Randall Other passengers leaped said. “The balloon was tethered Smoke could be seen bil- witness to the ground, some with their at the time, but then broke and lowing from the crash site from clothes in flames, witnesses came loose,” he added. miles away. said. “They were all trying to get The cause of the accident fire to three trailers and several Eleven people were seri- out.” was not immediately known. vehicles. No one was reported ously injured when the bal- After most of the passen- Weather conditions were clear hurt in those blazes. loon crashed Friday evening gers escaped, the balloon ex- at the time of the sunset flight. “We’re exceptionally lucky in a recreational vehicle park ploded in a fireball and shot “People were screaming that nobody in any of these in Surrey, British Columbia, up into the air. Shortly after, and trying to get out,” Frank three trailers or in the vehi- a suburb of Vancouver. There the burning balloon plunged Hersey said Friday night near cles that were destroyed were were 12 passengers and a pilot to ground in the RV park, leav- a grassy field where several of caught in them,” Morrow said. on board, police and witnesses ing a tail of thick black smoke the injured were being attend- The hot-air balloon, which said. in its wake. ed to by ambulance crews. CTV reported was operated Royal Canadian Mounted “I can’t tell you what ex- Perry Kendall said he saw by Fantasy Balloons Charters Police Sgt. Roger Morrow said actly happened when the bal- what looked like something based in Langley, British Co- relatives of the two passengers loon was loosened from the out of a movie. lumbia, was one of several bal- killed witnessed the fire. He de- tether,” Yearwood said. “We “It was horrifying,” said loons in flight at the time. clined to comment on reports will be talking to attending a shaken Kendall. “Just look- Company spokesman John that the dead were a mother crew members and the pilot to ing at people screaming and K. George said he does not and her grown daughter. find out.” jumping out of there. Some of know why the balloon caught “It’s just tragic. They He said the pilot was in them, I think, had fire on their fire shortly after takeoff. watched it unfold before their stable condition. clothes. It was just awful.” “The company deeply re- eyes,” Morrow said of the fami- “The thing went up about Witnesses also said pro- grets this evening’s incident DON RANDAll | AP lies. “The fatalities suffered 400 feet in the air at which pane tanks from the balloon and all injuries associated A hot air balloon’s basket bursts into flames shortly after takeoff from burns.” point it melted enough of the shot off and landed on the Ha- with it (and) inconvenience to when it was about 25 feet off the ground in Surrey British Colom- balloon – it collapsed,” said zelmere RV park below, setting those people being displaced,” bia, Canada, Friday evening. Global warming causing Mediterranean Sea to rise

Bank study released this year. Areas not under water rica, global warming is rarely Richard Alley, a geoscienc- would also be affected, with discussed. But the government Egypt may face ‘catastrophic’ consequences es professor at Penn State Uni- salt water from the Mediterra- in Cairo is beginning to con- By ANNA JOHNSON area of rich, arable land where century, flooding coastal areas versity, said the sheets are col- nean contaminating the fresh front the problem. The Associated Press the Nile River spreads out and along the Delta. lapsing at slow rate, but much ground water from the Nile In Alexandria, authori- drains into the Mediterranean Already, the Mediterranean faster than scientists thought River used for irrigation. ties are spending $300 million a decade ago. A complete col- But the unique and fragile to build concrete sea walls to ALEXANDRIA, Egypt – Mil- Sea. Although the Delta makes has been creeping upward lapse could take “at least cen- ecosystem of the Delta makes protect the beaches along the lions of Egyptians could be up only 2.5 percent of Egypt’s about .08 inches annually for turies,” said Alley, an expert on the job of protecting it much Mediterranean, Frihy said. forced permanently from their land mass, it is home to more the last decade, flooding parts ice melt. greater – and human activ- Sand is being dumped in some homes, the country’s ability to than a third of this largely des- of Egypt’s shoreline, el-Raey But even minimal sea rise ity has already made the task areas to replenish dwindling feed itself devastated. ert country’s 80 million peo- said. in the next century would harder. beaches. That’s what likely awaits ple. By 2100, the rising wa- have serious consequences for For thousands of years, Similar walls are going up this already impoverished and The Delta was already in ters could wipe out the sandy Egypt, experts warn. annual Nile floods deposited in other parts of the coast in- overpopulated nation by the danger, threatened by the side beaches that attract thousands A rise of 3.3 feet would mud, sand and minerals that cluding Rashid, where archae- end of the century, if predic- effects of southern Egypt’s As- of tourists. Also at risk would flood a quarter of the Delta, replenished the Delta and pre- ologists in 1799 discovered the tions about climate change wan Dam. Though the dam, be the buried treasures archae- forcing about 10.5 percent of vented erosion. But for the past Rosetta Stone that unlocked hold true. The World Bank de- completed in 1970, generates ologists are still uncovering in Egypt’s population from their three decades, the Aswan Dam the secrets of ancient Egyptian scribes Egypt as particularly much-needed electricity and ancient Alexandria, once the homes, according to the World has curbed the sediment from writing. vulnerable to the effects of controls Nile River flooding, it second most important city in Bank. The impact would be all resettling in the Delta and al- The government is also global warming, saying it faces also keeps nutrient sediment the Roman Empire. the more staggering if Egypt’s lowed erosion to flourish. preparing a “national strat- potentially “catastrophic” con- from replenishing the eroding But those losses would pale population, as expected, dou- “The sediment created a egy study” on ways to adapt sequences. Delta. to the impact of the worst-case bles to about 160 million by balance. Now the coastal pro- to climate change, said Maged “The situation is serious Add climate change to the scenario that some scientists the middle of the century. The cesses are acting alone with- George, Egypt’s minister of en- and requires immediate atten- mix, and the Delta faces new are predicting _ global warm- Delta is already densely packed out sediments counteract- vironmental affairs. tion. Any delay would mean uncertainties that could have ing unexpectedly and rapidly with about 4,000 people per ing, and the balance has been Mohamed el-Shahawy, a extra losses,” said Mohamed a potentially more devastating breaking up the Greenland and square mile. changed,” said Omran Frihy, climate scientist at the Egyp- el-Raey, an environmental sci- effect on Egypt. Scientists gen- West Antarctic ice sheets. Also hit would be Egypt’s a retired coastal researcher in tian Environmental Affairs entist at Alexandria University. erally predict that the Mediter- If this happens, seas could food supply. Nearly half of Alexandria who has published Agency, said the government A big reason is the vulner- ranean, and the world’s other rise by about 16 feet, caus- Egypt’s crops, including wheat, several reports on sea level rise was obtaining a “vulnerability ability of Egypt’s breadbasket, seas, will rise between one foot ing mass devastation to the bananas and rice, are grown in and erosion. index and detecting the most the Nile Delta, a fan-shaped and 3.3 feet by the end of the region, according to a World the Delta. In Egypt, as in much of Af- vulnerable regions.”

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RICHMOND, Va. – Michael Vick can only hope he will get more leniency from the judge than he did from the NFL. Roger Goodell’s letter in- forming the Atlanta Falcons quarterback of his suspension reads almost like a goodbye, the NFL commissioner doing nothing to hide his disgust and his disdain. A similar reaction by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hud- son, who will be presented with Vick’s plea agreement on Monday, could mean years in prison. In court papers, Vick admitted bankrolling “Bad Newz Kennels” and participating in the killing of dogs in the dog- fighting operation. But he tried to deflect much of his culpabil- ity in the grisly enterprise onto his friends. That didn’t deter Goodell, who was quick to hold Vick responsible, suspending him indefinitely and without pay Friday from the job that made him a millionaire and a super- star. The decision, on the brink of season opener, left the Fal- cons without their headline player. Goodell made it forcefully clear Vick wasn’t helping him- self by trying to pawn off blame on his three co-defendants in J. PAt CARtER | AP the case. “You are now justifiably A fan at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Miami Dolphins preseason NFL football game holds up a sign supporting Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on Saturday, in Miami. Vick was suspended by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Friday. facing consequences for the decisions you made and the conduct in which you entry to minimize Vick’s involve- much of his youth to make the will have sway. But it was the once told him Vick had prom- gaged. Your career, freedom ment. announcement, remembering sway of those hometown ties ised: “If I ever make it, I’m go- and public standing are now “Our position has been how it shaped his life. that got Vick into this mess. ing to look out for you.” in the most serious jeopardy,” that we are going to try to help A few months ago, mentor His supporters portray him Said Hardy: “So Tony was Goodell wrote. Judge Hudson understand all James “Poo” Johnson called as a victim of his own intense working at Marva Maid Dairy The portrait of Vick as a the facts and Michael’s role,” Vick to ask if he could get some loyalty to the guys he hung out over in Newport News and he person who enjoyed the hei- Martin said in telephone inter- equipment for a Boys & Girls with before he became rich said when Mike got that big nous blood sport has fueled view. “Michael’s role was dif- Club tournament. Vick sent and famous. 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The Last Word in Astrology

Ian Brown by Eugenia Last

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have to keep moving and applying yourself today if you want to get ahead. There will Lobster Ave. Lobster be financial, legal or medical issues to deal with but don’t get discouraged. A change in your status is apparent if you are pa- tient. 4 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With less work and more play you’ll discover new friends, closer connections to the people you already know and a strong bond with your children (if you have any). It’s time to focus on what makes you happy, not what you feel you have to do. 2 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Keep your thoughts to yourself today. You will be taken the wrong way or given the wrong information if you discuss your plans with others. Overreacting, overdoing and overspending will be your weaknesses. Refrain from indulgences. 5 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t be afraid to do things dif- Glen McCoy Glen McCoy ferently. A change of pace or scenery will stimulate your think-

The Duplex The ing. Talk about your plans with loved ones. The possibilities are endless but it will take initiative to get things underway. 3 stars LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Self-deception will lead to trouble. Be honest about the way you feel and what you want to do with regard to your personal life, partnerships and future di- rection. Today is a good day to explore the possibilities and initiate change. 3 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may have a lot riding on your performance today. Be creative, precise and practical if you want to make a lasting impression. Don’t get too close to someone you have to work alongside. 3 stars LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Concentrate on what will bring you the most in return today. Network, play with your kids, do something creative or visit somewhere that you can be pam- Baldo pered. The time to be in love and show your feelings is now. 5 stars

Cantu & Castellanos Cantu SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can get a lot done if you stick to the task at hand but, if you let someone interfere, you will experience setbacks. Don’t let emotional issues cloud your vision. A change in your plans will benefit you and keep the competition guessing. 2 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take action: Nothing you can say at this point will make a difference and, in fact, may take away from what you are trying to do. Stick to basics and don’t venture too far off your original plans. 4 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t waste time pondering over minute details that, in the big scheme, won’t matter. Tie up loose ends and divulge your plans so you can put every- thing else behind you. You are thinking straight, so don’t let anyone confuse you. 3 stars

Jim Davis AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Emotional matters will surface and partnerships may be questioned. Reevaluate your posi- Garfield tion and you’ll realize what has to be done to correct the past or to make things better in the future. A love connection can be taken to a deeper level. 3 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Someone may be trying to pull one over on you but, if you are on top of matters, you can counteract whatever is going on behind the scenes. Listen and observe. Arguing will be a waste of time; instead, take action. CROSSWORD 3 stars

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The CSU volleyball team, plagued by several service errors, had a rough start to its season over the weekend, losing all three matches at the Asics Challenge in Ho- nolulu, Hawaii. Although disappointed, coach Tom Hilbert remains optimistic. “We will learn from this,” Hilbert said. “We are discovering things about our team and will continue to do so throughout the tournament. We just have to take this and FILE PHOTO | COLLEGIAN get better from it.” Jaime Strauss (1) bumps the ball as teammate Katelin Batten The Rams (0-3, 0-0) lost (16) watches on Friday, August 25, 2006. a heart-breaking match to Oregon State on Friday night, dropping their season “We will learn from this. We are opener in fi ve games after taking a 2-1 lead. Junior out- discovering things about our side hitter Jamie Strauss led team and will continue to do so CSU with 18 kills and a .293 hitting percentage in the throughout the tournament.” match. On Saturday evening, Tom Hilbert | head coach CSU was defeated again in fi ve games, this time by host-Hawaii, the 10th ranked third and fi nal match of the of the fi rst two matches. team in the country. Junior weekend late Sunday night “It is frustrating that we setter Ashley Fornstrom led to Michigan, starting its lost,” Strauss said. “We out the Rams with 58 assists, six season 0-3 for the fi rst time hit and out blocked our op- kills and nine blocks, but her since 1977. ponents and only lost by two efforts were not enough. For the Rams, the fi rst two points. It is hard to have that The Rams started off the losses were painfully similar. happen in both games.” match slowly, loosing the In both matches, the Rams The CSU volleyball team fi rst game, but then came lost game 1, then blew a 2-1 will begin its home sched- back with consecutive victo- game advantage to loose in ule this week with the Coors ries in games 2 and 3. How- fi ve, each time by just two Classic. The Rams host Ohio ever, CSU had 20 service points. Service errors killed State Thursday night at 7 errors and the Rainbow Wa- the Rams all weekend, as p.m. in Moby Arena. hine proved to be too strong they tallied 43 of them in the Volleyball beat report- JUSTIN SOGGE | COLLEGIAN for the Rams, taking care of fi rst two matches alone. er Brandon Owens can be Middle blocker Tessa Nelson spikes the ball during practice at Moby Arena Thursday afternoon, business in games 4 and 5. Strauss said she was ag- reached at sports@collegian. August 24, 2006. CSU went on to lose the gravated about the outcome com

Womens’ hoops Rams kicking game promising welcomes coach By Collegian Staff Kristen and look for great Jason Smith boosts things from her.” The CSU women’s bas- Holt is the second assis- ketball team announced last tant in the past two weeks confi dence for team Friday that Kristen Holt will hired by coach Jen Warden. join the program as an assis- Dick Lien was also added By NICK HUBEL the team, but that he has the tant coach. as an assistant earlier this The Rocky Mountain Collegian ability to stretch that distance Holt comes most recent- month. if needed. Offensive coordina- ly from Wichita State, where Holt will be entering her The CSU football team tor Dan Hammerschmidt said she coached the team’s 13th season as a Division I closed its fall camp this past that a consistent kicking game guards the past four years. women’s basketball coach. weekend, holding a mock is the key to taking pressure off Holt will serve a similar Before Wichita State, scrimmage and pregame this year’s offense. role with the Rams, as well Holt coached at Radford walkthrough on Sonny Lubick “If Jason has a year like as overseeing the team’s re- University in Radford, Va., Field at Hughes Stadium. The that, these calls get a lot easi- cruiting. where she earned Big South Rams practiced entering the er,” Hammerschmidt said. “Kristen will be a tre- Conference Coach of the stadium as if preparing for an As for the rest of the team, mendous asset to the Rams,” Year honors in 2002. actual game, going through coach Lubick said that he has Warden said in a statement. The Lima, Ohio, native team warm-ups and pregame been impressed with the pro- “She is as impressive as a will begin work on Sept. 4. routines in front of a few dozen duction of senior quarterback recruiter and fl oor coach as The Collegian staff can fans and team personnel. Caleb Hanie throughout camp, she is personally. I truly look be reached at sports@colle- The team went through particularly with his accuracy forward to working with gian.com all the situations they would and ability to make plays on face in a game, emphasizing the run. special teams and the two- “I feel like our quarterbacks minute offense. Coach Sonny have had an excellent camp, Lubick said afterward that he especially Caleb,” Lubick said. was happy with the scrimmage “We’ve got a chance to be re- THIS WEEK’S LINE UP and liked the way that his team ally good.” responded to the game-like at- The defense also showed mosphere. fl ashes of brilliance, not al- SAM HERRIN | COLLEGIAN “We covered every situa- lowing the offense to score a Thursday tion you can possibly cover,” touchdown in the red zone or Punter Jimmie Kaylor (8) bobbles the snap on Kicker Jason Smith’s extra point attempt on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006. • Coors Classic: VB vs. Ohio State, Moby Arena, 7 p.m. Lubick said. “We got more get anything going during the done today then we’ve got two-minute drill. done most days.” “I think our defense is go- Particularly impressive was ing to be a little undersized, set for 10 a.m. out of the scrimmage due to a Friday the kicking game, with senior but it is going to be tough, and slight sprain in his right shoul- kicker Jason Smith hitting a 30- it is going to be quick,” coach INJURY REPORT der. He expects to return to • CC @ Wyoming Invitational, Laramie, Wyo., All Day yard fi eld goal and a 57-yard Lubick said afterward. Senior linebacker Jeff practice today. fi eld goal against a full defense A full depth chart is expect- Horinek sat out of the scrim- Senior defensive end Bob to close the practice. ed to be released today with mage with a mild sprain in Vomhof missed the scrimmage “It was good, especially go- major position battles possibly his left knee. According to as he continues to recover from Saturday ing into this last week,” Smith decided at starting strong-side Head Coach Sonny Lubick, X- surgery on his meniscus. He said. “(To) get a little bit of con- linebacker and offensive line. rays and an MRI of the knee expects to make a full recovery • FB @ CU, Invesco Field at Mile High, Denver, 10 fi dence there and that the guys The Rams kickoff their showed no structural damage in time for the season opener a.m. TV: Fox Sports but Horinek was given the day with CU. • Coors Classic: VB vs. Pacifi c, Moby Arena, 7 p.m. can see it, too.” season on Saturday against Smith said that the 57-yard- CU with the Rocky Mountain off as a precaution. Football beat writer Nick er was the deepest fi eld goal Showdown at Invesco Field at Senior wide receiver Da- Hubel can be reached at sports@ that he had ever made with Mile High in Denver. Kickoff is mon Morton was also held collegian.com.