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Sports have a way of bringing out the best and worst of humanity. Our inherent athletic talent, our determina-tion to win at any cost and (of course) our ability to make an excuse for anything. With the Super Bowl now over, the sore losers are coming out of the woodworks and saying:

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Referees� e perpetual punching bags of football, the referees are always to blame for any loss. If only they’d not been paid o� by the other team, or not hated our team quite as much, then maybe we’d have won.

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REWIND: CSU BASKETBALL OVER WINTER BREAK

By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Nap time paid off for Sue James. Inspiration struck 20 years ago after

the engineer had a dream that led to the idea of developing a hybrid of a natu-ral material and synthetic polymer that would look like cartilage to the body and not be rejected like other artifi cial materials.

“I literally woke up in the middle of the night and thought, ‘yeah, we should try that,’” James said.

James, now the department head of mechanical engineering at CSU and a professor in the school of biomedical engineering, began a line of research that led to the creation of a biologically enhanced, long-lasting knee implant.

“The ‘aha’ idea was really just a pre-cursor to what was developed,” James said.

Infused with a biological molecule and natural lubricant (hyaluronic acid) the material, BioPoly, has been licensed

to a private company for use as a less in-vasive alternative to knee replacement.

After eight years from the initial fi l-ing, the invention received its patent license in 2010.

BioPoly was one of 56 inventions originating at the university that were patented with the help of CSU Ventures from 2006 to 2011.

CSU Ventures –– the university orga-nization charged with promoting, pat-enting, licensing and protecting inven-tions created at CSU –– has seen across the board, record high numbers for technology transfer during that same

time period. Todd Headley, president of CSU

Ventures, said the mission of the pri-vate, non-profi t organization is to make sure that research and innovation done at the university makes it to companies who can commercialize the technology.

He attributed the success to campus offi cials investing in the infrastructure needed to get inventions into the mar-ketplace, an increase of “boots on the ground” at the university and word of mouth — both in the marketplace and

See RESEARCH on Page 9

Research assets: brains and bucksCSU Ventures promotes university inventions, sees boom in innovation

Professor Melissa Reynolds discusses fi ndings with her graduate research assistants in lab last Thursday. Reynolds’s research focuses on molecular design and fabrication of biomimetic materials that can be used in medical device applications.

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By SEAN MEEDSRocky Mountain Collegian

Even with all the fences around the west and south sides of the Lory Student Cen-ter, the majority of the the building’s renovation project is not expected to commence until after May.

According to Doni Luckutt, director of marketing for the LSC, most of the offi ces within the LSC will leave after the end of the semester.

“One or two offi ces will be moving before then, but most will move out after com-mencement in May,” she said.

Two departments that have been affected by the ren-ovations include the Curfman Gallery and the ASCSU Senate Chambers.

Doug Sink, program man-ager for the Lory Student Cen-ter Arts Program, said that the gallery has been able to adapt to the early close.

“The gallery housed many temporary exhibitions of art-work, so those were returned to the students and artists who designed them,” Sink said. “Some of the permanent art-work is being relocated to the north end while some is going off campus into storage.”

Sink said the gallery closed early so that construction workers could get a jump start on some footing work under-ground. He also stated that the student center has made a commitment to keep the art-work in the LSC.

“The Curfman Gallery will be back in the new student center, but in a new location,” he said.

The gallery falls under the

See LSC on Page 9

Fences up, few affectedLSC construction to be endured for another year-and-a-half

V for Victory

Junior History major Laura Dallam celebrates while watching the Superbowl at Wild Wings on Elizabeth Sunday night. Read the full story inside of page 2.

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By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

In celebration of Black

History Month, CSU’s stu-dent organizations are put-ting on events to remember their heritage.

“This is a month for the African American culture to show pride and joy in their heritage, which should be experienced by every cul-ture,” said Destiny Johnson, president of United Women of Color.

While Black History Month events strive to edu-cate and build community, the month signifi es much more, according to Johnson.

“I think it is important

to celebrate Black History Month because it is a time to highlight all the achieve-ments and good the African American culture has done,” Johnson said. “As a culture we have been through a lot, but I also think that is im-portant to understand and inform present and future generations of what our cul-ture has overcome.”

According to Ann Little, associate professor of his-tory, African American his-tory is a vital part of the his-tory of the United States and therefore, important to all Americans.

“Enslaved and brought

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Remembering rootsStudents celebrate Black History Month with events in February

CheatersIf not the refs, then certainly the other team is the problem! Playing illegal players, using duct tape on gloves, or just straight up juicing. � ose cheating sons of witches don’t deserve to win!

� e CoachHe can’t call plays, he doesn’t get angry enough, he isn’t hiring the right people. From college teams to pro teams, the coach is always a reliable scape-goat for players that can’t scrape a win.

515 inventions: up 132 percent from the 222 inventions during the previous fi ve-year period 627 patent applications: a 170 percent increase from the 232 applications during the previous

fi ve-year period 165 license agreements: a 184 percent increase from 58 agreements during the previous fi ve-year

period $8.22 million in licensing income: an 86 percent increase from $4.42 million during the previous

fi ve-year period

A RUNDOWN OF 2006 TO 2012

Tomorrow in your College Avenue

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THE BIG GRABOWSKI“Baskeball has now become a hot-ticket sport at CSU.” Greek Life

Recruitment

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Community Briefs

TILT Short Courses registration open

Registration for the spring semester Short Courses at The Institute for Learning and Teach-ing is now open. The first course, “A Short Course in Teaching Sustainabil-ity,” will be taught by Bill Timpson beginning Feb. 5 at 4 p.m.

Short Courses meet for two or more sessions

on dates designated with-in the semester and cover teaching-related topics. Other Short Courses will be offered at various dif-ferent times during the se-mester.

Registration is free on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served ba-sis with limited seating. At-tendance of all Short Course sessions is expected. Addi-tional information and a link to register for TILT’s Short Courses can be found on the TILT’s website.

1098-T tax forms now available on RAMweb

The 1098-T tax forms for the year 2012 are now avail-able on RAMweb and have been mailed to any students who have not yet opted for electronic delivery of their forms. CSU is required to pro-vide eligible students annu-ally with an IRS Form 1098-T, which is used to determine the eligibility of the student

for education tax credits.In order to obtain your

form, you can log into Ram-web, click on Tax informa-tion, and then 1098-T Re-porting Form. Additional information is also available on Ramweb under Tax In-formation, 1098-T Detailed Information link, which will show you all of the transac-tions that sum to your totals for the year.

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By JEFF ZREBIECMcClatchy-Tribune

NEW ORLEANS –– Ray Lewis’ last ride has ended with a Baltimore Ravens coronation.

Twelve years after they won their fi rst Super Bowl with Lewis and the defense leading the way, the Ravens reigned again, fi nishing off a surprising playoff run in dramatic fashion. Behind the arm of Joe Flacco and the legs of Jacoby Jones, the Ravens held off the San Francisco 49ers in a 34-31 victory in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Su-perdome.

Completing one of the best postseasons for a quar-terback ever, Flacco threw three fi rst-half touchdown passes to three different re-ceivers. Jones, who caught one of those touchdowns, then provided the excla-mation point by returning the opening kickoff of the second half for a 108-yard score. That gave the Ravens a 28-6 lead.

The victory gives the Ravens their second Super Bowl title and their coach, John Harbaugh, signifi cant bragging rights over his younger brother Jim, the coach of the 49ers. It also provides a fi tting end to the Lewis era, which spanned 17 seasons, and estab-lished the identity of the franchise.

Now Lewis, the only remaining player from the team that blitzed the New York Giants to win Super Bowl XXXV, and his team-mates will get one more ride, a trip through the streets of downtown Balti-

more for a parade to cele-brate their achievement.

The Ravens, who limped into the playoffs by losing four of their last fi ve games, proved once again that it isn’t always the dom-inant team in the regular season that captures Super Bowl glory. It’s the team that is at its best when the games matter most, and the Ravens left little doubt that they were that team.

They overwhelmed the Indianapolis Colts and their rookie phenom quarterback Andrew Luck in the fi rst round. They needed two overtimes and one miracle 70-yard touchdown pass from Flacco to Jones to beat the Denver Broncos and Pey-ton Manning in a pulsating divisional-round game. They then bullied Tom Brady and the New England Patriots to win an AFC championship game rematch.

In front of an an-nounced 71,024 and with the football world watch-ing, the Ravens took a 21-6 lead into halftime and led 28-6 when the power went out in the stadium, caus-ing a delay of more than 30 minutes.

When play resumed, the 49ers grabbed all the momentum. Kaepernick hit Michael Crabtree, who spun off tackles from Cary Wil-liams and Bernard Pollard to complete a 31-yard score.

The 49ers got the ball right back, and two plays after a 32-yard punt return by Ted Ginn, Frank Gore ran it in from 6 yards out to make it a 28-20 game and give San Francisco two touchdowns in two min-utes, 23 seconds.

Ravens hang on, beat Niners at Super Bowl

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By Katie O’KeefeThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

On Monday, the Cor-bett Hall parking lot will be closed — for good.

The closure will allow builders to proceed with the construction of a new stu-dent housing project, Laurel Village, that is expected to be ready by fall 2014 semester.

Laurel Village will house more than 600 undergradu-ate students and offer both standard and suite rooms, wrote Rick Pott, Housing and Dining Services facility planner, in an email to the Collegian via Tonie Miyamo-to, director of communica-tions for Housing and Din-ing Services.

“The Village will feature two LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmen-tal Design) Gold residence halls, including a Residential Learning Community for the College of Natural Sciences, similar to the Engineering and Honor communities at Academic Village, as well as a pavillion community building that is slated to be CSU’s first LEED Platinum building,” Pott said.

According to the web-site new.usgbc.org, LEED is a voluntary program that grants “third-party verifica-tion of green buildings.”

LEED provides building owners and operators an outline in order to recognize green building standards. In

order for a building to earn

LEED certification, specific requirements must be met and buildings must earn at least 40 points on a 110-point rating system scale.

The new student housing project is also part of CSU’s next step in the ongoing ef-forts to create a more bicy-cle- and pedestrian-friendly campus, according to Pott.

“In the university master plan, as the student popu-lation increases, there are proposals to add additional parking structures on the

perimeter of campus while working to make the core

campus bike and pedestrian friendly,” Pott said.

For current Corbett Hall residents, this means hav-ing to haul that laundry just washed at your parents house a little further.

Residents will have the option to park in the Westfall Hall parking lot (Lot 115) or the Moby Arena parking lot (Lot 195), Pott said.

The lots are about one block from the current Cor-bett parking lot and offer a large number of available

spaces, Pott said. “Many college and uni-

versities do not allow first year students to bring cars to campus, and/or require that first year students enter a parking pass lottery or park in remote lots,” Pott said. “We are fortunate at CSU that first year students can not only bring cars to cam-pus but have access to park-ing lots on main campus.”

Collegian Writer Katie O’Keefe can be reached at [email protected].

Freshmen Mark Currie, left, and Ben Boucher walk past the Corbett parking lot to their dorm Sunday evening. Starting today, the Corbett parking lot will be closed to make room for Laurel Village, the new student housing project scheduled to be completed in fall 2014.

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By Bailey COnstasThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Six sororities are current-ly looking for new members as part of spring recruit-ment, along with all fraterni-ties, who recruit throughout the whole year.

There are four councils at CSU including the Panhel-lenic Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Multicultural Greek Coun-cil and the Interfraternity Council.

The Panhellenic Council is composed of nine sorori-ties, six of which are partici-pating in spring recruitment: Alpha Delta Chi, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha.

According to Gabrielle Ligotke, the Panhellenic vice president of recruitment, spring recruitment is a “less formal” process than the fall formal membership recruit-ment process.

“Chapters are able to host events at different times and potential new members can pick and choose which events they are interested in attending,” Ligotke said.

According to Amy Bell, Greek Life coordinator and Panhellenic advisor, fall re-cruitment can be intimidating.

“A lot of times students are overwhelmed with classes and a lot of women

choose not to affiliate in the fall,” Bell said.

In the fall, about 500 women rush and 350 get placed or accept bids for a sorority. In the spring, num-bers are significantly lower, with 80 to 90 women rushing.

Christin Slaughter, the Tau Lambda chapter presi-dent of Delta Sigma Theta, enjoyed her experience of being recruited.

“When I was recruited I was very excited but also eager to learn all of the his-tory and traditions of my sorority,” Slaughter said. “It was a lot to learn but it was very worth it. I also value the relationships I formed with all of the women I was going through recruitment at the same time I was.”

For Chris Jarrett, a soph-omore environmental engi-neer, the recruitment process led him to join Kappa Sigma.

“I just ran into one of the members and thought he was cool and wanted to know people, so he invited me to broomball,” Jarrett said. “It’s just a good brother-hood bonding experience.”

“It’s so much more real-istic instead of putting on a fake smile and pretty dresses and selling yourself to girls,” Jarrett said. “It’s more like, lets have fun, play football and hang out because that’s what we end up doing.”

Jarrett said that the rush

process for him made it clear that his dues were going to brotherhood events and philanthropy events.

“We’re showing the kids this is what we do, when you pay your dues it’s not going to be buying friends, like some people think,” Jarrett said.

The rush process wasn’t a negative experience for Jarrett as much as it was just finding a place where he fit and felt welcomed.

The Greek council’s are fairly secretive in their recruit-ment process because of his-tory and tradition, Bell said.

If a student is interested in joining Greek Life, they are expected to do research to determine which chapter would be the best fit before the recruitment process.

The Interfraternity Council, made of 20 fraterni-ties, recruits 365 days a year, but according to Bell they do

a significant push in the be-ginning of each semester.

According to Jaron Mag-gard, rush chair of Alpha Gamma Omega Christian fraternity, Greek Life at CSU is quite small compared to other colleges.

“Not many men join fra-ternities overall, and even fewer would want to join a Christian fraternity,” Mag-gard said. “Because we stand between two ideologies that at times seem to be entire-ly opposed to one another, AGO focuses on finding men that have had contact with our members already.”

Alpha Gamma Omega primarily focuses on making themselves a public entity by chalking the plaza and handing out fliers.

“Our actual rush process typically consists of one and a half to two weeks of nightly activities that are designed

to both allow rushees to meet and interact with the active body and give actives a chance to evaluate the rushees,” Maggard said.

When the events are over, the fraternity holds a voting session that is based on the rushees’ spiritual, so-cial and academic merits.

“We have over 40 chap-ters that provide unique ex-periences,” Bell said.

Each chapter has a dif-

ferent philanthropy project which can also determine which chapter is right for students.

According to Bell, spring recruitment is for those who want leadership experience, are looking for a good fit and relationships that will last for a lifetime.

Student Life Beat and En-tertainment Reporter Bailey Constas can be reached at [email protected].

Junior Business major Isaac Oguin hands out flyers on the plaza encour-aging students to rush his fraternity Thursday. Spring Rush is another opportunity to get connected with CSU’s 23 fraternities and 14 sororities with over 1,500 members total.

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spring recruitment Greek life is underway at CsuKappa Kappa Gamma

Feb. 10, 2 to 3:30 p.m., house tour, casual attire

alpha Delta Chi Feb. 13, 7 to 9 p.m., bowling,

casual attire Feb. 15, 7 to 9 p.m., Bible study

and chai at Mugs, casual attire

Delta Delta Delta Feb. 2, 3:30 to 7 p.m., enjoy

appetizers with the ladies of Delta Delta Delta followed by a CSU men’s basketball game, casual CSU attire

Feb. 6, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., dinner and decorate cards for children at St. Jude, casual attire

Feb. 7, 6:15 p.m., bowling, casual attire

fraternity anD sOrOrity eVents

Don’t you even try to park in Corbett

“It’s so much more realistic instead of putting on fake smiles and pretty dresses, and selling yourself to girls.”Chris Jarret | Sophomore Environmental Engineer

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I work with kids and have never loved any job as much as this one. It is stressful and tiring, but it keeps me on my toes; one day is never like the other. My favorites are the kindergarteners, who make me feel like a superstar just by walking in

the door.But the more I see these kids,

spend time with them, and the more I am up here at this university, the more I realize that while we label ourselves as adults, we’re really just big kids.

The striking similarities occur when adults get angry, and when adults decide they are in love. We point our fingers at the youngsters, rolling our eyes at the temper tan-trums that they throw in the middle of the grocery store, muttering words like “brat” and “indulgent parenting.” However, I was in class the other day when some guy decided to throw his notebook at the wall shouting obscen-ities. Over what, I don’t know, but it seemed like a temper tantrum to me.

And girls, we haven’t come very far ourselves. We bicker and fight over what so-and-so told so-and-so, and vow that we will “never speak to her again.” But then we smile and nod when that same girl tells us that “we really should catch up sometime.”

We have our best friends and our

enemies. Remember when we were five, and you’d be best friends in the morning, be fighting by lunch, and be best friends again by the time school let out? While it may not be exactly the same, our acquaintanceships seem to have the same up-and-down style.

So I have to wonder, when it comes to dating, are we really just grown up kids?

As a childcare teacher, I have performed countless weddings in which the bride and groom exchange vows such as, “I promise to always share my Oreo cookies with you,” and “I promise that I will always give you my swing.”

People think it’s cute and then brush it off, because apparently five-year-olds know nothing about love, right? However, I’d challenge that we do not know much about love our-selves.

For those of you that are in loving and committed relationships, congrat-ulations. Relationships are hard and get harder as time passes. If you have found a way to make it work, good for you.

I am on the other side of the coin. In the aftermath of a break-up, I have turned back to those same five-year-olds for advice. Because, really, I just want someone to share his Oreos and swing with me.

Young love is so much easier with-out this adult nonsense. Before things like sex and jealousy get in the way, we got “married” because we liked the other person. These kids say that they love everything and everyone, and I really think that they do.

So when was it that our love got conditional? When did we start saying “I will love you until this happens,” or “I will love you as long as you do this for me?” Even worse: “I will love you until I find someone else”? When did we start wondering if our significant other loved us, instead of assuming that this was the case?

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love is on everyone’s mind. Everything is pink and red and heart-shaped; chocolate and flower sales are at an all-time high. But remember when we were kids and just had to write on a little valentine with a Dum-Dum attached to it?

Wasn’t that much easier than deciding what kind of extravagant gift we can give, as if that is the measure of how much we love another person?

A couple months ago, a first grade boy flew me a paper airplane with “open me” written on the side. When I spread it out, it read, “you luk pritee.” The beauty of it is that spelling can be taught, but the romantic gesture cannot.

This Valentine’s Day, go back to when you were young and in love. Remember that in a lot of ways, we really haven’t grown up all that much. Let your inner kid out to play, and you might be surprised at how much easier life gets.

And, most of all, get advice from some of the wisest people around: kids.

Brittany Jordan is a Junior Psychol-ogy Major. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

As a senior gearing up for gradua-tion in the spring, my tenure at this university is quickly coming to a close. With the vestiges of nostal-gia already forming in the back of my mind, I decided to attend what would have been the last CSU Wy-oming Border War basketball game I’ll ever get to see in the student sec-tion, and marveled at my newfound ability to print a ticket online to the game at my own convenience for a small $2 fee.

I registered myself on the website using my student information and was able to print out my ticket in the privacy of my own house rather than making the trek to McGraw, thinking to myself as I did so that the simplicity of the whole process was too good to be true.

It was.Unbeknownst to me and many other shocked and

outraged students, spending 10 to 15 minutes importing all your student information online to reserve a student ticket ahead of time was an absolutely useless endeav-or if you showed up to the gates of Moby without your student ID in addition to your ticket.

“Sorry, orders from above say no students get in without student IDs,” the event staff woman stated plainly, wielding the power of her scanner gun, “just go back and get it real quick.”

Unfortunately there could be no “real quick” trip to get my ID from my house. In order to avoid Moby’s post-game traffic and responsibly consume a few beers before the game, I had decided to forgo driving and had walked the half hour to Moby from my house.

I tried reasoning with the event staff, arguing with her, even pleading with her. But as I spoke more fervent-ly of the injustice of being turned away at the door she stone-faced me — her face becoming expressionless and her eyes drifting off, making it quite clear she was no longer listening to me.

Piqued, I demanded to see her manager, but had even less success with the supervisor, who walked up with a swagger reticent of his frat-days and regarded me with a smirking condescension.

Becoming frustrated in less than a few minutes talking to this supervisor, I was soon demanding to see his manager as well. After an extended amount of time, a pockmarked and weathered man approached and began explaining that there just wasn’t anything they could do.

“Nothing you can do? I pay thousands of dollars to attend this school. There is a scanner in that woman’s hand and a ticket in mine. I am a CSU student, let me through that door.”

“We need your student ID, we’ve been having a lot of problems with scalpers,” the pockmarked man curtly replied.

Oh of course! I just need to prove I’m a student and didn’t get this ticket off of Craigslist, easily fixable, I assumed.

I quickly pulled up my class schedule for the current semester on my cell phone, which features my full name, the date, and my full class load and pulled out my driv-er’s license to supplement my class schedule, thus prov-ing that I am, indeed, Kevin R. Jensen, a CSU student paying thousands of dollars to attend this university.

But even that wasn’t good enough. Citing orders “from above,” the pockmarked manager said his hands were tied.

Enraged, I demanded to speak to somebody higher up that could do something to solve this obvious griev-ance. “It’ll take a while, wait over there out of the way,” he said.

I was being brushed off.I understand why the student ID policy was imple-

mented, but the policy was in no way communicated to students — I was but one of a number of students who were turned away at the door Saturday evening.

There was nothing on the website that indicated a student ID would be required, and the tickets that were printed didn’t say a single word about an ID being neces-sary for entry.

CSU Athletics have done a deplorable job communi-cating with students about the implementation of their new policies, but I was more shocked at the absolute lack of respect that I received from the event staff when trying to enter the game.

Any event that takes place at CSU is a reflection of the university itself, and even the contracted event staff should embody the spirit of this campus, which I’d like to believe is open, welcoming and respectful. If the event staff is detrimental to this atmosphere, then our athletic department should find another company to contract with.

Content Managing Editor Kevin R. Jensen is a senior English major. His column appears Wednesdays in the Collegian. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @kevinrjensen.

The United States has one of the highest legal minimum drinking age requirements in the entire world, set at what has be-come the iconic 21st birthday for Americans. Few realize, however, that our drinking laws aren’t that black and white. In fact, in Wis-consin, New York, Nevada, Texas, Massachusetts, Wyoming and five other states, underage chil-dren can even be served liquor in a bar or restaurant with their parent or guardian’s consent.

When examining alcohol laws around the country, it turns out that 40 out of 50 states have exceptions to the minimum legal drinking age, with Colo-rado itself having a number of circumstances when underage

consumption of alcohol is legal.So where did 21 come from?

The short answer is the Nation-

al Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, in which the federal gov-ernment essentially said that if your state wants the federal

money you’re entitled to to build roads and transportation sys-tems, then you have to raise the drinking age to 21.

But with all but 10 states es-sentially subverting this edict from the federal government, and with the stench of hypocri-sy that lets our 18-year-olds die in war but not buy a beer, may-be it’s time that we took another look at our legal drinking age in Colorado.

We should not leave the re-strictions that our state was strong-armed into accepting on the books. Instead, we should come together as Coloradans and rationally decide the extent to which legal adults have control of their own lives and decisions.

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LSC Arts Program, which encompasses many other parts of artwork in the stu-dent center, like the Gallery, which features many stu-dent artwork exhibitions.

Meanwhile, the ASCSU Senate had their last meet-ing in the Senate Chambers in the LSC on Wednesday, Jan. 30. According to Rob-ert Duran, communications director for ASCSU, Senate meetings will take place in the Computer Sciences Building in Room 130.

“The renovation hasn’t affected our day-to-day op-erations much,” Duran said.

“We’ve had to start moving our supplies into different storage units, but other than that there’s been nothing negative other than the con-struction outside our win-dows.”

ASCSU is scheduled to move to its new location in the MAC Gym in May. De-spite the move away from the “academic center” of CSU, Duran believes that the new move might attract a new selection of students.

“We’ll be in a good loca-tion since so many students utilize the Rec Center,” he said. “The Rec Center might give students more reason to go to our offi ces, especially

since all the other depart-ments will be there in a cen-tralized location.”

Other offi ces that are scheduled to move into the MAC Gym in May include SLiCE, the GLBT Resource Center, the Career Center and Greek Life. ASCSU Pres-ident Regina Martel also hopes the offi ces in the MAC Gym will be inviting to stu-dents.

“The offi ces are sup-posed to be next to each oth-er, which will make it con-venient to talk to the other departments,” she said.

Despite the plans to move many offi ces to new locations for next year, Luc-

kutt assured that many de-partments within the LSC would not be moving,

“The bookstore, Adult Learner Center, Student Legal Services, Cam’s Lob-by Shop, Bagel Place II, the Transit Center and the north Ballrooms will not be affect-ed by renovations,” she said. “Everything north of the bookstore will still be avail-able.”

Luckutt also said there would be new food options available in the LSC next year, but she could not say what exactly.

Senior Reporter Sean Meeds can be reached at [email protected].

LSC | Groups making most of MAC move

RESEARCH | Govt. grants reach millionsContinued from Page 1

among researchers and fac-ulty at CSU.

An infl ux of money for research at CSU didn’t hurt either. The campus has seen an increase in research fund-ing per year over the last fi ve years, culminating with a re-cord $340 million in 2012.

“There’s defi nitely a cor-relation,” Headley said.

BioPoly is one of nine inventions James has pat-ented during her 19 years as a faculty member. She said technology transfer at the university has come a long way since the late 1990s.

“They’ve added a lot of staff and gotten a lot smarter about how it all works,” James said. “In the early days I cer-tainly didn’t feel like they were really on top of their game.”

Headley said he’s op-timistic the next fi ve years will see continued, if slightly slower, growth.

“It’s probably not going to be as dramatic because we really did come a long way in the last fi ve years,” he said.

Melissa Reynolds, a pro-fessor in Chemistry and the School of Biomedical Engineering, has two in-ventions making their way through the patent process and a startup company, Dia-zamed, that’s licensed to use the technology.

CSU Ventures helped with getting her company up and running and guiding the inventions through the complicated patent process.

Reynolds said she worked in private industry before coming to CSU in 2009 and one of the major

reasons she decided to come to CSU was the “user friend-ly” nature of technology transfer at the university.

“The notion of being able to go in and talk to someone here and fi gure out the best way to get technolo-gy patented is very exciting,” Reynolds said.

Both her inventions in-volve making molecular coat-ing for medical devices. One, designed to degrade in the body over time, leaves no left-over polymers or plastics in the body. The other is meant to last in the body forever.

Reynolds has received multiple grants and awards to continue research in this area, including a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense.

Cardiovascular devic-es like stent coatings, ar-

tifi cial blood vessels and wound-healing devices that could be used by injured soldiers in combat are a few applications her inventions can be used for.

Both James and Reyn-olds said the most rewarding part of the research process is working with students in cutting edge research and creating products that can improve people’s lives.

“I don’t think there can be anything more reward-ing,” Reynolds said. “Gradu-ate and undergraduate stu-dents, they’re the ones that actually make the discover-ies and create the innovation that we can then convert into products so they’re part of that process.”

Senior Reporter Aus-tin Briggs can be reached at [email protected].

HISTORY| Paving the way forwardContinued from Page 1

to the Americas in chains, African people were sys-tematically robbed of their labor and their children for nearly 300 years,” Lit-tle wrote in an email to the Collegian. “Nevertheless, African Americans persist-ed and as Americans, were inspired to fi ght for their liberty on the basis of that radical Jeffersonian decla-ration that all men are cre-ated equal.

“African American his-tory embodies both the best and the worst that America can be,” Little wrote.

Eric Nelson, professor of ethnic studies, said he celebrates Black History Month by recognizing Af-rican Americans who have worked tirelessly and sac-rifi ced their lives to bring equality and diversity to the United States.

“Dr. (Martin Luther) King's spirit lives on. Af-ter his assassination, mil-lions of people picked up the torch and continued to fi ght for a better future, car-

rying our shared movement for social justice into the present day,” Nelson said.

Kayla Tolbert, presi-dent of Black Defi nition, is aware of the struggle her ancestors endured to cre-ate a better future, and she acknowledges that their fi ght led the way for oth-er discriminated groups to speak up and demand equal rights of their own.

“With our policies now as far as not discriminating against people, I feel that it brought other people to want to speak up,” Tolbert said. “Now you have the GLBTQ community fi ght-ing for their rights.”

“It’s important to re-member that this country was built by people with African American heritage, and I think that people for-get where we came from and forget to acknowledge it, so I think it’s important to remember that,” Tolbert said.

Senior Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at [email protected].

Feb. 4: Movie Monday: “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” showings at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m., LSC 204

Feb. 5: “Reverse Diverse” Career Fair, 4 p.m., LSC Theater

Feb. 6: Lunch with CSU Black faculty and staff. Noon, LSC Rooms 224-226

Real Talk: “Are Black Wom-en the Mules of the World?” 4 p.m., LSC Room 204

Eddie Moore, Jr.: “The Nigga(er) Word: Is There a Message in the Madness?” 6 p.m., LSC Grey Rock Room

Feb. 7: “The Natural Hair Jour-ney,” 7 p.m., LSC Room 211E

Feb. 8: Black History Quiz Bowl, noon, LSC 204

Feb. 9: Bring Your Sweetheart to Breakfast at Applebee’s, 8 to 11 a.m., $6 all you can eat

Feb. 11: Movie Monday: “Some-thing the Lord Made,” showing at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m., LSC Room 204

For the complete list of events or more information, contact the Black/African American Cultural Center, www.baacc.colostate.edu, or (970) 491-5781.

UPCOMING BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS“I don’t think there can be anything more rewarding.”

Melissa Reynolds | Professor in Chemistry and the School of Biomedical Engineering

Building project is expected to be completed in 16 months from the beginning of construction in May 2013. The renovated portion of the Student Center is anticipated to open for Fall semester 2014. Sur-rounding building landscape work will take an additional three months to complete.

2012 June: Theatre renovation complete December: The contractor mobi-

lized with trailers and fencing. Utility work started on the Plaza near the RAMtech entrance. Exterior work on the west side will begin.

2013 January: The contractor mobilized

with trailers and fencing. Utility work started on the Plaza near the RAMtech entrance. Exterior work on the west side will begin.

May: Affected offi ces will be moved by the end of May 2013.

August: The renovated portion of the Student Center is antici-pated to open for Fall semester 2014.

November: Surrounding building

landscape work is anticipated to be complete.

2014 Fall: Estimated completion date

for Master Plan renovation project (fee not implemented until project is completed).

Source: www.sc.colostate.edu

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performance. “It changed the com-

plexion from we’re in con-trol, we stayed the course, it’s 24 to 21 at half,” Wy-oming coach Larry Shy-att said. “And then I think everybody, maybe except me, said no, no it’s 30 to 21, it’s a completely different game.”

In the second half, it was senior guard Dorian Green that led the Rams scoring 10 points while chipping in fi ve assists as the Rams cruised to victory.

While CSU utilized a balanced attack to disman-tle Wyoming, the Cowboys failed to answer the bell on the offensive end, as they only had one player, senior guard Derrious Gilmore, who scored in double fi gures.

The Rams had a hard time containing Gilmore, who scored 26 points, 18 of which came in the second half, but it simply wasn’t enough to stop CSU’s bid for a 26-game home win-ning streak.

As Gilmore shined, the rest of the Cowboys strug-gled, shooting just 29.8 per-

cent from the fi eld.“It takes five guys on

defense playing togeth-er, everybody doing their assignment, not breaking down, contesting shots and trying to make shots as difficult as possible,”

Green said. “I think when we are edgy on defense and ready to go, we are dif-ficult to score on.”

Continuing their play as a team and not just in-dividuals will be key in al-lowing the Rams to contin-

ue their success into their final nine games of the season and into the post-season.

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MBBALL | CSU too o� ensive for Wyoming

GRABOWSKI | Student interest won’t fade

WBBALL | Cowgirls keep winning Continued from Page 12

that wasn’t quite what the scouting report said,” Wy-oming forward Chaundra Sewell said. “They were shooting lights out for the fi rst four minutes and we just had to weather the storm.”

The fi rst half couldn’t have been any more even-ly matched, numerous tie scores and lead changes had all 4,053 people in attendance either on the edge of their seat or standing on their feet.

“They just kept matching us, that three-ball kept them in that fi rst half,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “They will always have fi ve great shoot-ers on the fl oor at all times.”

Both Wyoming and CSU tallied six threes in the fi rst half, the fi nal one coming from CSU’s Mandy Makeev-er, as she shot over two Wy-oming defenders to barely beat the buzzer.

“It felt very, very physi-cal and close the whole time, when that girl hits the three at the end that doesn’t help it,” Wyoming’s Kayla Woodward said. “When they do make their little runs it gets hard, but we stuck with them.”

That shot brought the Rams within one at halftime,

down 38-37, but that would end up being the smallest defi cit for the rest of the game.

The Cowgirls started the second half on a 10-2 run, tak-ing control of the MW match-up, and not looking back until after the game clock expired.

“Our coach reminded us that we were winning at half-time. We all kind of had our heads down, for whatever rea-son, we expected to come out and be leading by 10 points going into the locker room at halftime,” Sewell said. “But a one point lead is still a lead.”

Wyoming stretched its lead to 16 points while out-scoring CSU 44-30 in the sec-ond half. It had four players scoring double digits, who accounted for 67 points. Sam Martin was the only Ram to score more than 10 points, as she posted up 30 for CSU.

The conference loss drops CSU to 6-14, 2-5 MW while Wyoming climbs to 17-4, 6-2 MW.

“I liked the way we played, especially in the fi rst, boy the chemistry was good,” Williams said. “Lot of positive things tonight.”

Women’s Basketball Beat Reporter Quentin Sickafoose can be reached at [email protected].


“offi cial” sellout last year (Wyoming) and has also only fi lled Moby to the brim once this season (also Wyo-ming) but the atmosphere has regularly been electric, particularly once the stu-dent population returned for the spring semester.

7,626 people offi cially attended the Jan. 19 game against UNLV, but you would have been hard-pressed to fi nd space for 1,000 more people in that arena.

More important than the individual numbers though, was that game created an atmosphere at Moby, an ambiance that fans from all backgrounds replicated and exceeded Saturday evening against Wyoming.

General public tickets for the game sold out by Wednesday and students took advantage of their new ability to pick up basketball tickets early, gobbling them up by Friday.

That would have been unheard of, a pipe dream in just about any previous CSU basketball season.

I once walked in at half-time of a game against then No. 6 New Mexico my fresh-man year because the score was close and I wanted to see how it ended.

I guarantee no one

could have pulled that off in Saturday’s Wyoming game.

By selling out this game so (relatively) far in advance, that increases the urgency of anyone wanting tickets to the next home game next Wednesday against San Diego State.

Basketball has now become a hot-ticket sport at CSU.

It’s partly because of the win streak and partly due to the atmosphere fans have cre-ated, but more than anything the two feed off of each other.

As the team wins more fans show up and cheer louder and as more fans show up, and cheer louder the team wins more.

Consecutive sellouts at Moby are about as rare as unicorns, but if Saturday’s game was any indication, the arena will be rocking again next Wednesday for the Aztecs.

Don’t squander the op-portunity to be a part of that atmosphere.

CSU may have leaps and bounds ahead of it before it can jump into the upper echelon of basketball schools with Kansas, but creating a raucous home court advantage and build-ing a lengthy winning streak are great places to start.

Sports Editor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at

Colton Iverson (45) makes a dunk as fans go crazy in Moby Arena at the soldout game against Wyoming Saturday night in the annual Border War game.

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By Andrew SchAllerThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The mark of any great team is how well all five players play together on the floor at any one time.

As CSU has gotten off to an 18-4 start to the 2012-13 season, the play of the complete team has been an emphasis in an effort to get them back to the NCAA tournament.

The Rams put that team effort on display Saturday night against their rival Wyoming, as CSU had five players score in double dig-its and three players grab eight or more re-bounds in a dominating 65-46 victory.

“I think we had a complete team effort if you look across the board,” senior forward Pierce Hornung said. “We have five guys in double figures, so that is the mark of a good team when we have the depth that we can do that.”

The Rams pulled out some of that depth early on in the game.

Towards the end of the first half, CSU found itself in a 24-21 game with just under three minutes to play until halftime.

That’s when sophomore reserve guard Daniel Bejarano took over the game.

Bejarano scored the final seven points in the first half for the Rams, including a three pointer he banked in with 1.8 seconds to play as he was fouled by Wyoming senior forward Leonard Washington.

“I don’t know I just tell them, `Get in the hole, there’s only five seconds left,’” Bejara-no said. “I just get the ball and I just shoot.

It happens to be at the last second but it is just a shot.”

Bejarano missed the ensuing free throw, but the damage had been done.

CSU recaptured the momentum that propelled them to a dominating second half

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SportS MondayCollegian

Monday, February 4, 2013 |

By Kyle GrABowSKi

26th and counting

Dorian Green (22) and Pierce Hornung (4) fight for the ball against a Wyoming player at Moby Arena Saturday night in the annual Border War game. The Rams beat Wyoming 65-46 for their 26th straight home win.

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Dorian Green (22) directs play during Saturday nights game against Wyoming at Moby Arena. dylAn lAnGille | COLLEGIAN

rams owe Moby streak to fans, themselves

Team effort pushes Rams past Wyoming

Rams burn out after first halfCSU hockey takes two steps closer to nationals

Hockey

First half Scored: 37 points Outscored by: 1 point FG percentage: 50 percent 3 point FG percentage: 60 percent

Second half Scored: 30 points Outscored by: 14 points FG percentage: 34.6 percent 3 point FG percentage: 16.7 percent

cSu BreAKdown

Women’s BasketBall

Pierce Hornung: 12 points Greg Smith: 0 points Colton Iverson: 12 points Wes Eikmeier: 13 points Dorian Green: 15 points

rAM’S BAlAnced AttAcK

Anytime you can move past Kansas at anything bas-ketball related, you know you’re doing something right.

After the Jayhawks’ 85-80 loss to Okla-homa State

at Allen Fieldhouse and CSU’s 65-46 win over Wyoming Saturday, the Rams now boast the nation’s third-longest active home winning streak at 26 games.

Syracuse leads the clubhouse with 35 straight wins at the Carrier Dome and South Dakota State ranks second with 28 in a row at Frost Arena.

The last time CSU lost a home game, current coach Larry Eu-stachy was roaming the opposite sideline, Boise State and San Diego State looked poise to jump to the Big East and “Gangam Style” was just a twinkle in Psy’s eye.

In that game, then-Southern Miss junior LaShay Page buried 11-15 shots, including 8-11 from behind the three-point line, for 30 points to lead the Golden Eagles to victory.

He has since transferred to South Carolina and was declared academically ineligible in January due to what the university and coach Frank Martin are calling an “academic glitch.”

What a difference more than a year makes.

That CSU team had chronic issues playing on the road and si-phoned as much energy as it could from the home crowd, relying on accurate field goal shooting and low-error basketball to win.

This year’s squad, though with similar personnel, has undergone a philosophical metamorphosis.

They grind out possessions on the defensive end and attempt to play “every inch of the floor.”

Regardless of style, however, both teams won and won and won.

Last year’s CSU team knocked off three ranked teams at Moby Arena and a CU-Boulder squad that made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The 2012-13 Rams may finish undefeated at home while intimi-dating the hell out of every oppo-nent that steps through the doors.

Both teams are good to be sure, but award at least some cred-it to the legions of Ram fans filling the seats on a regular basis.

CSU only registered one

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By Quentin SicKAFooSeThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The CSU women’s basketball team traveled across state lines into Laramie on Saturday looking for a Border War victory against Mountain-West rival Wyoming.

However, the Rams weren’t able to find what they were looking for. CSU left the Arena Auditorium, also known as the Dome of Doom, with a 82-67 loss and an understanding of the venue’s nickname.

Unlike much of their season thus far, the Rams wasted no time getting things going early.

Immediate baskets from Hay-ley Thompson and Sam Martin gave CSU an 8-0 lead only two minutes into the game.

“It hurts your confidence when

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By hAleiGh hAMBlinThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Head Coach, Kelly Newton was all smiles after the 3-1 win over DU Saturday and the 9-2 triumph over CU–Boulder.

Coming off a three game losing streak in Oklahoma, CSU started the Friday night game against CU–Boulder with a 1-0 lead in and con-tinued to boost their confidence with a seven point victory.

Dominating from the start, CSU put up the first points within the first five minutes of both games.

Letting up in the second period against DU, CSU goalkeeper put himself on the line and blocked the Pioneer’s charging defense on and off his skates.

“We needed to put up the third goal sooner,” Newton said. “We kept letting them back in, and it is something to work on.”

Looking to the upcoming week, Newton and the team must regain their focus to ensure a win in the upcoming games in Utah.

“It was good to come in with

the quick goals, but then we took our foot off the gas,” Newton said. “It is hard for us to stay motivated.”

With the season coming to a close at the end of the month, the Rams have no room for error at this point. A challenging schedule awaits CSU as they head to Utah this weekend and then challenge DU and CU–Boulder again at home.

“We need to knock them off one at a time,” Parker Harrison said. “It is about tightening up and focusing.”

CSU will plan to focus on de-fense in its upcoming practices as well as tightening down the hatch-es and continuing to put up points when they are in control.

“I thought we played really well,” sophomore goalkeeper Alex Steidler said. “We kept up our strong defense … they had a good goalie but we ended up pulling it out.”

CSU will challenge Division I Utah this weekend for an automat-ic bid to Nationals in St. Louis, Mo.

Men’s Hockey Beat Reporter Ha-leigh Hamblin can be reached at [email protected].

“We kept up our strong defense ... they had a good goalie but we ended up pulling it out.”

Alex Steidler | sophomore goalkeeper

Colorado State forward Sam

Martin (12) drives to the

hoop for a layup during

the first half of Saturday after-noon’s game in Laramie, Wyo.

Despite leading for most of the

first half, the Rams were able

to holdoff the Cowgirls and

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