Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Volume 124, No. 48 • collegian.com At new and old breweries, FoCo beer NEWS community thrives PAGE 4, 5 & 6 Athletics fees might increase by 2 HE percent this year. T See where your STRIP money goes New Belgium is collaborating with PAGE 3 Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream to create Salted Caramel Brownie Brown Ale, so we came up with some other beer flavors that we’d love to wet our OPNION TUESDAY whistles with: Haleigh Dragon Fruit. McGill writes Mainly because the label that selfies taken would be super cool. during important moments can help Cucumber. document one’s life Trust us, it’d be good for those hot summer days. PAGE 8 Cheese Cake. Super thick, creamy and SPORTS cheesy cake beer. Jasmine Banana Nut Pudding. Hanna Despite Nothing goes better with a late start to beer than bananas and nuts. volleyball, a CSU N IA G E player finds success LL O C PP PAGE 10 NA E K KAT BY TION ILLUSTRA 2 Tuesday, October 20, 2015 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian collegian.com FORT COLLINS FOCUS OFF THE OVAL Why Congress should reconsider the Perkins Loan program Numbers have a way of revealing the real story beneath the rhetoric and misinfor- mation around controversial topics. Take the ongoing Feder- al Perkins Loan debate, for example. More than 1,700 institutions of higher education participate in the program, resulting in about 500,000 students in need being awarded loans to finance their college educations. This campus-based program provides funds to students with the highest level of financial need. The federal government began its new fiscal cycle on Oct. 1. For the first time in 57 years, the proposed budget does not include the Perkins Loan program. Although there is a wide range of programs that aim to Sophomores Anna Weith (back), Adam Weiner (middle) and Kienna Stephens (front) enjoy summit views from Greyrock Mountain as the sun set support the nation’s neediest Saturday night. PHOTO BY CAMERON BUMSTED COLLEGIAN students, the Perkins Loan has a few unique twists that make it valuable to both students and taxpayers. Most obviously, the Perkins Loan is a loan and not a grant. As such, the student agrees to Sierra pay back the loan over a 10-year Cymes KCSU SCHEDULE Follow period following graduation. DJ Profile @CSUCollegian on Twitter With a 5 percent fixed interest rate, repayment generates addi- TUESDAY LISTEN ONLINE AT KCSUFM.COM tional funds for the next gener- ation of students. Furthermore, Sunshine: Sunrise Sierra Cymes hopes you will start your morn- 7:00 AM colleges and universities make ing o right. Her 7 to 9 a.m. show every Tuesday Beats contributions to the fund, features alternative rock and pop music, with which extends the reach of the artists ranging from Vampire Weekend to Taylor 9:00 AM Star Like CSUCollegian program. Swift. “I hope to show people what I’m all about, on Facebook At Misericordia University, get my tastes out there and ultimately get people a cumulative federal contribu- dancing,” Cymes said. Courtney: kickin’ it tion of $1.1 million was available 11:00 AM This is the journalism major’s first semester as with court for student loans during a DJ, though she has been involved with student the 2014-15 academic year, media as a reporter for the Collegian. She said she $245,000 of that in new loans. loves communicating through a variety of medi- 3:00 PM Mario’s Class Those funds were cumula- ums, but music speaks to people in a way that vi- tively supplemented by more sual media cannot. “(It can) get people motivated, than $600,000 of institutional 4th and Goal with Follow wake them up with a smile on their face,” Cymes 5:00 PM CSU Collegian money, which also was lent to said. “I hope people will be happy in the morning Cody Smith (sports) on Instagram students. Although the limit with this show.” for Perkins Loans to under- Cruz&Nikk Nakk: It’s 5 Though originally from Arvada, Colorado, 7:00 PM graduates is $5,500 annually, Cymes has lived in Fort Collins for two years O’Clock shomewhere most students receive about while attending the University. She is unsure $2,000 per year. Perkins Loan what the future holds, but she would love to be a 9:00 PM Trent & Meena funds help fill the gap between travel journalist someday. Until then, she says she other sources of financial aid enjoys communicating with her CSU audience in and family contributions so any way she can. Sugarfree & TBA: Follow students can meet the entire 11:00 PM The Graveyard Shift CSU Collegian cost of attending a college or Collegian A&E Editor Hannah Ditzenberger on Snapchat university of their choice. can be reached at [email protected]. Briefs fromTribune News Lory Student Center Box 13 Fort Collins, CO 80523 EDITORIAL STAFF | 970-491-7513 Haleigh McGill | Opinion Editor Katie Schmidt | Social Media Editor This publication is not an official publication of Colorado [email protected] [email protected] State University, but is published by an independent corporation Skyler Leonard | Executive Editor Emmett McCarthy | Sports Editor Sarah Papa | Copy Chief using the name ‘The Rocky Mountain Collegian’ pursuant to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] a license granted by CSU. 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For the 2016-17 school year, Shafer said the elimination the student athletics fee may in- of this fee would be detrimental crease by about 2 percent. This to the CSU athletics program, as equates to about $2 more per se- every student should be able to mester for on-campus students, go to any sporting event without totaling $114.92 in athletics fees having to pay extra for it. per semester. This proposed in- "A married couple with no crease would compensate for ris- kids still pays taxes to fund the ing salaries and the cost of opera- public school system," Shafer tions in the athletic department. said. "It comes down to personal The funds generated by the preference, but the idea is that student athletic fee mostly go they have the ability to use these toward salaries and sta bene- funds to go to the right people." fits for the athletics department, The fee also helps to increase according to Andy Shafer, direc- out-of-state applications to the tor of University A airs for the University, Cottingham said, as Associated Students of Colora- a well-funded athletics depart- do State University. However, ment increases recognition of the fee also allows students to the CSU brand across the nation. attend almost every Universi- This, in turn, helps to keep in- ty-sponsored sporting event state tuition fees low. with no added cost. This includes Since 2005, the amount of football, men's and women's money students pay for this fee basketball, volleyball, women's has more than doubled. Ten soccer and more than 16 other years ago, on-campus students programs. payed $113.58 per year to fund Steve Cottingham, the ath- the athletics department, where- letics department chief financial as in the upcoming 2016 year, ocer, said if the student athlet- they will pay $229.84. This is in ics fee did not exist, CSU would part due to the University's in- have to adopt an all-sports pass creasing focus on the athletics for students to purchase. programs and sports teams. Many other universities o er Erik Petrovich can be reached this type of pass, which for CSU at [email protected]. PHOTO BY ABBIE PARR COLLEGIAN N NEWS Tuesday, October 20, 2015 • Page 4 New Belgium plans $7M expansion, on-site healthcare for employees By Megan Braa @MeganBraa New Belgium Brewing Company is planning exciting things for the next coming year, including a $7 million expan- sion of the Fort Collins Prop- erty, the emergence of a second brewery location and a part- nership that involves the un- likely combination of ice cream and beer.