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To readers new and old, More than ever, in 2017, CU seemed like a place where news was con- Inside this Issue... stantly breaking. We documented the campus-wide discourse about alt-right Find Your Way – p. 3 Investigative Journalism – p. 10 speaker Milo Yiannopoulos coming to campus; we saw Trump’s ban on refu- College as a life stage Trump travel ban and CU gees and people from majority-Muslim High school stereotypes in college? What is CU’s diversity plan? countries rip through the nation — and How to navigate college life! ‘Manipulative,’ ‘cult’ church CU; we uncovered more controversy at the infamous Resurrection Church in What I wish I knew as a freshman Xanax use at CU Boulder Boulder; we followed Fossil Free CU’s Cooking for college students dogged protests against the universi- ty; we reacted to former football coach Joe Tumpkin’s domestic abuse charges CU too soft on coach Tumpkin domestic violence case – p. 24 and the failure of Chancellor DiStefa- no and head coach Mike MacIntyre to respond properly or humanely. The CU Independent’s best photos of 2016–17 – p. 30 One of our proudest achievements was bringing you an investigative piece on CU’s long-mentioned diversity plan, Your fall sports preview from CUI sports – p. 26 now three years in the making. With little information available publicly, we dug for months into what is — and Arts and life News and perspective – p.37 isn’t — happening with the plan. That’s Fall concerts, albums preview What even is the CASE building? here in these pages for you. Up-close with CU marching band CU student gov’t controversy And through it all, you’ve been with Cheap games for broke students Anti-fossil fuel activists miss point us — or maybe you’re just becoming How to get involved To Tinder or not to Tinder? acquainted. Either way, this magazine is for you. All of you. Never hesitate to reach out to the CU Independent if *Stories on pages 11, 18, 21, 29, 34, 36 and 40 originally appeared on CUIndepen- you see or hear something we should dent.com. be reporting, documenting and talking about. Don’t stop being informed. It’s been the privilege of my young life to serve you these last four years. Don’t stop doing your part. – Ellis Arnold, Your online-only campus newspaper — we’ve got you covered. former CUI editor-in-chief Ellis Arnold, Layout and Design Editor, Syllabus Jake Mauff, CUI Editor-in-Chief Jordyn Siemens, Content Editor, Syllabus Jackson Barnett, CUI Multimedia Managing Editor Syllabus Contributors Dani Pinkus - Gavin Daugherty - Carina Julig - Charlotte Bowditch - Hayla Wong - Justin Guerriero - Jack Stern - Alex Pepper - Austin Willeke - Thomas Roller - Lucy Haggard - Jesse Hughes - Nigel Amstock - CUI Photo Staff For photo gallery credits, contact Jesse Hughes at [email protected]. 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Real Estate Club | DECA Real Estate Club | DECA CU Timmy (global health) DeltaDelta SigmaSigma Pi | Alpha Kappa PsiPsi Athletic BusinessInternational Club | International Business Club Business Club Women in ComputingComputing ||Design Design BuildBuild FlyFly Engineering for Developing Communities Biomedical Engineering Society Greek Life Engineers WithoutBiomedical Borders Engineering | National Society Society of Black Engineers WithoutEngineers Borders |Ethical Hacking CU sorority chapters: HackCUEthical Hacking | Makers | CollectiveHackCU http://www.colorado.edu/ University of ColoradoSTEMinar Engineering Council greeks/panhellenic-sororities MulticulturalEngineering Business Council |Students Leeds Ambassadors Association Multicultural Business Students Association CU fraternity chapters: http://coloradoifc.org/ Fall 2017 CU Independent 3 Find Your Way. New to college? Returning but still a bit lost? Check out this advice from our seniors — here’s how we made it through. 4 Syllabus Fall 2017 Life 101: College as a life stage, not school by Ellis Arnold, former Editor-in-Chief You could say I’ve been around. you’ll run into many societal problems head-on for the first time in your Four consecutive years at one of the nation’s most famous — or infa- life, you’ll also be going through the most complicated, volatile, sobering, mous — party schools. Four years at one of the top 100-ranked universi- bodyshocking time of your whole personal life so far. It’s beatific. It de- ties in the country. Four years living through Obama’s America, Trump’s mands attention. America and whatever America lies underneath. Four years at one of the (You excited yet?) more than 200 colleges and universities under federal investigation for wrongly handling sexual violence, part of the it’s-only-an-epidemic-be- But I promise you, the best advice I can give you is this: College isn’t cause-we-didn’t-talk-about-it-before issue that goes unrecognized every what they tell you it is. time a snide comment about “all the new freshman ass” passes through I just got to the end of my college experience — I graduated just seven an ignorant student’s lips. Four years at a school where you can have the weeks ago. (Yeah, I’m still sitting here in the journalism building as I type pleasure of sitting down in a bathroom stall and seeing a swastika carved this. You’re in for a ride, CMCI majors.) And the more I look back, the into the wall next to you. more I realize that college was an absolute clusterfuck. If there was a more Four years of close calls, of bloodshot eyes, of terrifying times, national articulate way to say it, I would. But the fact is that the conditions that anxieties and small victories. Four years of sitting, waiting and watching college puts you in — the rush of unbounded freedom, combined with people go through it all. your heaviest load of responsibilities yet, combined with the easiest access You could say I’ve been around, and you’d be right. you’ve ever had to alcohol and drugs, combined with a foreboding sense But before we dive in, let me be honest with you: These problems aren’t that you’re almost going to have to be a real adult — those things alone are unique to CU Boulder. They, and so many other issues, are rampant at enough to topple some people. And you’re not going to hear that at orien- other schools and throughout America. tation, or on your first day meet-and-greets. You’re not going to see “Hey But CU Boulder gives you a hell of a lens. And it is the hallmark of man, watch the fuck out” written on the free T-shirts. You’re not going to college — if four years is enough to make me an expert — that just as see a tattoo that says “I’m going to ruin your life for the next three months” Students walk past the recently completed Kitteredge Central residence hall on Sept. 3, 2013. (James Bradbury/CU Independent) Fall 2017 CU Independent 5 You’ll always hear, whether in jokes or in earnest, that college is the best four years of your life. Or that you really become “who you are” at college. Or that you’ll find your passion and figure the rest of your life out. Ellis Arnold wrote the “Life 101” advice column for the CUI. (Josh Shettler/CU Inde- pendent) on that person’s skin whose shirt you’re gonna try to take off in five days. like the world is spinning without you. The way that several “dating” and There aren’t warnings. semi-relationship situations (notice the quotes, my friends) unraveled was enough to leave me feeling wounded and unable to focus on more days You see, college, for various reasons — capitalism, American culture, than I’d like to admit. “Animal House,” Asher Roth — is an extremely branded thing. It’s a con- And for some people, they’re feeling that same thing right now on this cept that you’re paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for. And if you campus. For others, it’s something entirely different. For some people, can get past the fact that I just made a reference to Asher Roth (I’ll wait they’re under such pressure to succeed from their parents and continue while you Google), I need you to think about that. It’s not a product in the being that straight-A kid that they were in high school, but it’s just be- way Cokes with your name on them are products — well, OK, it kind of coming too hard.