Q & A WITH COORDINATOR OF INTERPRETIVE SERVICES | PAGE 6 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN 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 The Associated Press 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 ef- fect, 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 of- fi 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. See FIRE on Page 3 ARRON MONTOYA | COLLEGIAN Nick Lazzarini, winnner of season one of the television show “So You Think You Can Dance” guides local dancers through choreogra- phy 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 stor- age 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 See STORM on Page 3 2 Monday, August 27, 2007 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian 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. 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