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Shelley Luther, a Republican candidate running for a position in the Texas House of Representatives, has attracted controversy over a racist remark in a tweet calling for Chinese students to be banned from Texas universities. 

Luther is known by some as a major figure in the anti-lockdown movement protesting measures put in place to protect against COVID-19. She went on to clarify her position on the matter in a later tweet. 

“Texas Taxpayers should not be subsidizing the next generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders,” Luther said in the tweet. “CCP members should not have access to our schools.” 

Luther’s statements have received broad criticism, including from on-campus organizations such as the Chinese American Language and Culture Organization.

“Luther’s statement is extremely and evidently racist,” said CALCO officer Thalia Sevajanes. “Condemning Chinese students because of their government undermines what diversity is all about – learning about each other’s culture and respecting the differences.”

Several professors on campus also condemned Luther’s comments, with some worrying that her comments would add to anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.

“These comments reflect the intolerance seen since the outbreak of COVID,” said political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus. “If these statements aren’t repudiated by other Republicans, animosity will fester.”

Luther has previously run for state senate during a special election in 2020, where she was defeated by the sitting candidate. She is currently facing the previously unchallenged incumbent candidate Reggie Smith for his seat in the Texas House of Representatives. 

Political science professor J. Bryan Cole expressed doubts that Luther is capable of winning the election, noting the advantages incumbent candidates usually have.

“My guess is that Reggie Smith is in a much stronger position to win,” Cole said. “Incumbents have numerous advantages over challengers, including name recognition and better funding.”

Cole also made sure to caution against simply dismissing Luther’s comments as harmless.

“Instances of hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen sharply since the pandemic’s start,” Cole said. “Even if no one acts on Mrs. Luther’s rhetoric directly, such comments still generate fear.”

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While life has continued to provide highs and lows for us all, art has proven to be a remedy and an escape. Because of this, we decided to ask our Arts and Entertainment staff to tell us what art aided them throughout 2021, from addicting video games to exhilarating performances.

1. ‘Charli’ by Charli XCX (2019)

I spent this summer bussing tables at an Italian restaurant. The pay was inadequate, the hours were long and my coworkers were insufferable. By the time the guests were gone and it was time to close the store, I was chomping at the bit to dance away my woes with Charli XCX. On “Charli,” songs swell to immense climaxes, only to then be stripped back to their bare minimum. Her implementation of masterful songwriting (“Official”), electrifying guest appearances (“Shake It”) and glitchy, chrome-coated production (“Click”) all coalesce into a project which casts a vision for pop’s future that we can only be so lucky to one day inhabit. 

Courtesy of Asylum Records.

2. ‘Pokémon Showdown’

It’s so easy to open a new tab in the middle of a Zoom session. While it isn’t my favorite thing to admit, I often found myself logging on to this fan-made battle simulator whenever virtual meetings started to run long. Boasting a litany of game formats and unique rulesets tailored for competitive Pokémon fanatics, “Pokémon Showdown” was my much needed oasis in the draining virtual landscape of 2021. 

3. ‘Hedda Gabler’ by Henrik Ibsen (1890)

The first time I read Henrik Ibsen’s classic tragedy for my “History of Drama II” class, I hated it. When I read it again a few weeks later in my “Reading for Performance” class, I still hated it. It wasn’t until months later during our return to campus that I recognized the genius of this piece. Reuniting with classmates I hadn’t seen in a year and a half had me feeling as though I needed to meet their expectations and remain the person that I had been when we were sent home in March 2020. “Hedda Gabler” captures our tendency to both satiate and rebel against the expectations of others with stunning precision and (although I know Ibsen needs no favors from me) has become a play that holds a special place in my heart.

4. Run the Jewels at Shaky Knees

My chest has never rattled like it did when Run the Jewels took the stage at Shaky Knees Music Festival and launched into their galaxy-shaking banger “yankee and the brave (ep. 4).” What’s a year or two off my life if I got to see Killer Mike roar through his first headlining show in Atlanta this side of the pandemic? 

5. ‘Room on Fire’ by the Strokes (2003)

Giving this a spot on my list feels like a cop-out seeing as it was also one of my most played albums of 2020, but this year, “Room on Fire” seemed determined to continue soundtracking my life. I floated in the Atlantic Ocean while humming “The End Has No End.” I sang “Automatic Stop” with a friend after he learned it on guitar. On sleepless nights, I lay in bed and let the hypnotic march of “Under Control” wash over me, and God only knows how many renditions I did of “Reptilia” at Atlanta’s own Happy Karaoke. 

6. Ed Sheeran’s ‘Bad Habits’ music video

On June 24, I awoke to a text from my roommate which simply read “Ed Sheeran just got yassified.” The video for “Bad Habits” is a trainwreck of hilarious proportions. It features Sheeran dressed as a glittery vampire, a terribly animated CGI crowd and a glorious ten-second shot of Sheeran squirting ketchup into an oyster pail. The whole affair is so funny you almost forgive the guy for how shamelessly he’s ripping off the Weeknd.

7. Emory’s return to live theater

While Emory’s theater community admirably found countless ways to virtually perform  throughout the spring semester, there’s no denying how gratifying the return to in-person theater in fall 2021 was. Despite having to perform in masks or outside to mitigate the spread of disease, the simple act of live theater was a sorely needed breath of fresh air. Oftentimes I found myself more moved by the support students showed one another than I was by the pieces themselves. Whether it was a musical that took months of rehearsal or a minimally practiced staged reading, students came out in spades to show love to their peers, constantly reminding me of live theater’s necessity.

8. ‘Repertoire’ by James Acaster (2018)

James Acaster’s four part stand-up special beautifully blurs the lines between reality and fiction through fabricated tales of crime and punishment which allow glimmers of truth to peek through. Perhaps a story about entering the witness protection program becomes a confession of feeling as though life has passed you by. Maybe a tall tale about serving on a jury brings forward meditations on the frustrating nature of religion. “Repertoire” sees Acaster taking the idea that honesty can hide in absurdity and pushing it to the absolute limit, solidifying himself as one of the most forward-thinking comics working today. 

9. Atrioc’s YouTube and Twitch channels

You’d be hard-pressed to find a night I didn’t doze off to one of Atrioc’s YouTube videos or Twitch VODs. 2021 saw the streamer, lovingly referred to by viewers as “Glizzy Hands,” set multiple world records for his speedruns of the “Hitman” video game franchise, teach a marketing class in his “Marketing Monday” segment and sacrifice everything to win a Wikipedia race. Regardless of what Atrioc might be doing, I could always count on his videos to bring a cheerful end to my day.

10. ‘This Is Happening’ by LCD Soundsystem (2010)

Ultimately, 2021 was the year we all began to crawl out of isolation and attempted to reintegrate with one another. Crawling out behind us came anxiety, heartache, cynicism, loneliness and the growing pains of a year spent in stasis. 2021 was a year filled with pity parties, and no band knows like LCD Soundsystem that the best pity party is a dance party. I’d end this with something about dancing ourselves clean, but as James Murphy once said, “We both know that’s an awful line.” 

Gentry’s article is part of a year in review series by A&E writers. Read the rest here.

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Impressed with the academic focus of her associates, sophomore Rosa Wu reported with relief that the members of her Physics 110 discussion section were working around the death of a participant pretty well.

“When Thomas collapsed and began convulsing in his chair before finally ceasing to breathe midsentence, I thought for sure that the conversation was about to be entirely derailed,” said Wu, who was surprised that a classmate would just die in the middle of answering a question about electrostatic induction. 

“But, thank goodness, there were really only about two seconds of silence before someone else picked up where he left off.”

The section had only met for a few minutes before junior Thomas McGuire apparently felt the need to suffer an agonizing and slow death, according to Wu. “We all had to sit there awkwardly and watch him desperately grasp at the air above him while wheezing for help. It was honestly a real mood killer.”

Despite this, the group rolled with the punches and quickly adapted.

“Everything actually went pretty smoothly. The instructor jumped in and brought up an important clarification about electric fields and the ball was rolling again,” added Wu, commending the GSI’s quick thinking and command of the room.

According to Wu, the discussion section had resumed as normal just a few minutes later, each student pulling their weight in not acknowledging the corpse slowly slipping downwards out of view.

“I’m glad that we didn’t let something like the death of one of our classmates get in the way of our learning,” said Wu. “At the end of the day, that’s what matters.”

At press time, Wu reported that McGuire had been miraculously revived, completely disrupting an important conversation about how multiple charges interact with each other.

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Even though it feels like time simultaneously whizzed by and dragged on endlessly since the 2020 presidential election, we’ve officially hit an important milestone: We’re halfway to the 2022 midterm elections.

The midterms are a significant political marker. They come halfway through each president’s term and stand as a way to gauge how the country is feeling about how they’re doing in office. They can signify important political shifts that will affect how each party campaigns, governs and legislates in both the short and long term.

As we inch closer and closer to the midterms, there’s one question in the back of everyone’s mind: Will the Democrats keep, or maybe even build, their razor-thin majority in 2022?

Based on their performance since the 2020 elections, it’s not likely, and college campuses are showing us why.

Young voters — namely college students — played a large part in both Joe Biden’s presidential victory and the Democrats’ congressional victories. Exit polls after the 2020 elections showed that 65% of voters 24 and under voted for Biden, and younger voters helped lead Democrats to victory in key swing states like Georgia and Pennsylvania. More than half of young people turned out to vote, an important paradigm shift that showed the power of Generation Z (people born in the late 1990s to early 2000s) and millennials (1980-90s) in modern-day politics.

Even with their majority in all three elected bodies of our federal government, (Democrats have) failed to follow through on nearly every campaign promise they were elected on.”

Young voters didn’t necessarily elect Biden and other Democrats because they truly believed in their campaigns but because they wanted to push the party to the left. While Biden was on the campaign trail, it seemed like that thrust from young voters had worked; he adopted a number of progressive policies from Bernie Sanders’ campaign and even presented himself as a modern Franklin D. Roosevelt, championing his policies as being similar to the New Deal in the 1930s.

After all the progressive positioning Biden and the Democrats did in 2020, they’ve broken campaign promise after campaign promise during their time in office.

Biden promised ambitious climate action on the campaign trail. Instead, he’s approved thousands of oil drilling permits. Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned on sending every American $2,000 a month over the course of the pandemic. Instead, she and her Democratic colleagues only provided a one-time $1,400 payment to a small number of Americans.

Biden campaigned on a swift and aggressive federal COVID-19 response, but after being elected, Biden said there was “no federal (COVID-19) solution” and claimed state governments were responsible for ending the pandemic. I mean, Biden even kept cruel Donald Trump-era immigration policies in place rather than following through on his promises to foster humane treatment of immigrants.

Broken promises haven’t been exclusive to the White House either. Sen. Jon Ossoff, whose election in Georgia secured Democrats a slim majority in the Senate, promised the same $2,000 monthly checks as Vice President Harris. Needless to say, those checks have not arrived. Congressional Democrats slammed Trump’s COVID-19 response, yet over the course of their year in office, the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have both reached record levels.

Young people are becoming increasingly active in politics. Voter turnout among young people has been steadily increasing over time. Youth voters also lean more left than their political predecessors.”

These policy betrayals have heavily corroded Biden’s support among the young voters who got him into office in the first place. More than half of voters 29 and under now disapprove of Biden’s job in the office, a stark difference from the wide margin of victory on which he rolled in.

That trend spells out a very clear problem for Democrats. Young voters have proven to be the Democrats’ key to electoral victory in recent years. In both the 2020 election and the 2018 midterms, young people were one of the driving forces behind the Democrats’ election victories. Biden and the Democrats’ broken promises are alienating that important base of voters.

On top of it all, Democrats control the federal government. Democrats are in power in the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House. Even with their majority in all three elected bodies of our federal government, they’ve failed to follow through on nearly every campaign promise they were elected on.

Needless to say, that’s not a winning recipe.

Young people are becoming increasingly active in politics. Voter turnout among young people has been steadily increasing over time. Youth voters also lean more left than their political predecessors.

These trends in political activity and ideology among Gen Z and millennials help explain why they no longer support Biden. Not only has he broken the progressive policies he made to win their vote, he’s actively betrayed those promises while in office. His lack of climate action and failed COVID-19 response are perhaps the best examples of why college students and young voters are increasingly disillusioned by the Biden administration and its Democratic colleagues.

All of these factors, all of these trends and all of these policy failures are giving us a clear picture of what may happen when November rolls around and Americans head back to the polls. Biden and the Democrats’ plan to shift to the center after their progressive campaign posturing will likely cost them the youth vote — and the midterms.

Reach Dylan Tusinski at letters@collegian.com or on Twitter @unwashedtiedye.

Sophomore Shaun Maswanganyi helped Cougars finish second in the men’s 4x400m relay | Andy Nelson/NCAA Photos via Getty Images

The UH track and field team completed its involvement at the Red Raider Invitational on Friday, finishing with three first-place wins.

In the women’s weight throw, graduate student Priscilla Adejokun picked up the first medal of the day as she placed first with a throw of 21.95 meters. 

Her throw bested second-place by 1.17 meters as she picked up her second first-place finish in the event in as many weeks.

Senior Nu’uausala Tuilefano managed to finish in fifth-place in the finals as she recorded a throw of 18.03 meters for the event.

The second first-place finish of the day came via junior Brandon Segreaves in the men’s one-mile final where he posted a time of 4:17.20. 

The win marked the second consecutive week that Seagreaves picked up a victory in an event final while senior Devin Vallejo-Bannister ended the event in fifth place at 4:19.63.

In the men’s triple jump, junior Jadon Brome grabbed the Cougars their third first-place finish on the day with a jump of 15.50 meters. 

Brome’s second victory of the season was followed by sophomore Caleb Malbrough and junior Quinton Stringfellow, who finished fourth and fifth in the event with jumps of 14.77 and 14.69 meters. 

The men’s 4×400 relay team picked up a second-place finish in the final with a time of 3:07.09 led by graduate students Tyrell Valentine and Quivell Jordan, sophomore Shaun Maswanganyi, and freshman Trey Johnson.

In the men’s pole vault, Christian Sampy recorded a second-place finish in the final with a height of 5.23 meters while graduate student Ben Percefull picked up a fourth-place finish at 5.13 meters.

The UH track and field team’s next competition will see them return home where they will host the Houston G5 & Super 22 Invitational from Jan. 28-29 at Yeoman Fieldhouse.

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Despite an early and strong start for the No. 11 Gophers men’s hockey team Saturday night, Minnesota lost 4-1 against No. 3/4 Michigan after making a few costly mistakes.

“We made three mistakes tonight. They [Michigan] scored on them,” Gophers head coach Bob Motzko said. “Portillo was awfully good. We played a heck of a game…we did a lot of good things tonight. I don’t come in here [the media room] many times after a loss and say that.”

The Gophers scored just 2:46 into the game. Senior Blake McLaughlin fed a pass to a streaking junior Bryce Brodzinski at the blue line, and then Brodzinski fired home his 10th goal of the season to give Minnesota an early 1-0 lead.

Minnesota (14-10) played fantastic for almost the entire first period after Brodzinski’s opening goal. They were winning puck battles, dumping pucks deep into the offensive zone, and just made life difficult for Michigan as they relentlessly attacked their defense.

The Gophers also played well for most of the game as they outshot Michigan 40-19, but the Wolverines converted on a few short, bad lapses by Minnesota.
“We didn’t really give them much. I felt like we were peppering them the whole time,” McLaughlin said. “Their goalie, Portillo, played unbelievable. I think we were shooting high but should’ve shot some more [pucks] low. We got a little too cute trying to press our offense.”

Michigan equalized the game when Ethan Edwards fed a back-door pass from the blue line to Brendan Brisson on the back doorstep, and Brisson buried the puck from the bottom of the right circle to tie the game at 1-1 wIth 5:21 remaining in the first period.

Then just 1:02 later, Matty Beniers capitalized for Michigan, finishing off a fast rush from nearly the same spot as Brisson’s goal to give the Wolverines a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.

On Michigan’s back-to-back goals, the Gophers left junior goaltender Justen Close out to dry as he did not have much of a chance to save either of them.

As the second period got underway, the Gophers continued to pressure Michigan, but they had another bad lapse just minutes before the halfway point.

Michigan pressured in the offensive zone, the Gophers couldn’t clear it out after multiple attempts, and the Wolverines made them pay 7:00 into the period.

Thomas Bordeleau forced junior Jackson LaCombe to cough the puck up in front of Minnesota’s net. Then Michael Pastujov gathered the loose puck at a point-blank spot and buried it past Close to extend Michigan’s lead to 3-1.

After firing a shot past Close from the left faceoff circle, Nick Blankenburg added to the Wolverines’ lead to cement Michigan’s 4-1 victory with 7:38 remaining in the third period.

Minnesota played a great game Saturday, but just a few costly mistakes changed the game’s outcome, and the Gophers have now split seven of their last eight series.

“I have liked us since we came back from Christmas [break]. We’re in a good sport right now.” Motzko said of his team, who is 4-2 in 2022. “Our kids put up a fight tonight. We just needed to find a way to score a goal tonight.”

In Michigan’s victory, their goaltender Erik Portillo backstopped them as he made 39 saves with a .975 save percentage.

“I thought we were an unbelievable team,” Brodzinski said of Minnesota’s performances this weekend. “Justen Close is an unbelievable goalie. I thought we hung him out to dry a couple of times today. We take that to heart. I think we’re going to be a lot better going on.”

The Gophers will head on the road for their next series as they face Notre Dame on Friday, Jan. 28, at 6:30 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 29, at 5 p.m. at Compton Family Ice Arena.

After an amazing win against Utah State University on Wednesday, Jan. 19, the Colorado State University women’s basketball team headed on the road to play Boise State University. The win against Utah State evened out their Mountain West Conference record to 3-3 before today’s game.

The team leader, McKenna Hofschild, had 17 assists last game. This game seemed to be no different, except she wanted to be the scorer this time. Hofschild took the lead and ended the game with 11 points and four assists. 

The game might not have begun the way the Rams wanted: Boise decided to take the early lead and hold onto it in the first quarter. After Boise had their run, though, the Rams showed off their determination and had their own run and tied the game before going into the half, 35-35.

Teams break from the deadlock.

CSU 35 // BS 35
HALF#CSURams pic.twitter.com/UpuVNKlUzn

— Colorado State Women’s Basketball (@CSUWBasketball) January 22, 2022

The Rams seemed a bit off coming into the second half and only made four of 18 shots in the third quarter, but the Boise Broncos only did slightly better, scoring three more in the third quarter. Both teams showed amazing defense and made every player earn their shots. It was an intense battle for the finish between Colorado State and Boise State. 

This matchup was a close one as the fourth quarter became a nail-biter and the game became tied with less than a minute left. There were many chances the Rams had to pull through and get the lead, but the pressure Boise had seemed to be tough. Boise State pulled through with a layup and a foul. The game ended with the Rams at 64 and Boise State Broncos at 69, changing Colorado State’s conference record to 3-4.

The paint scorer, Karly Murphy, continued to bully anyone who attempted to guard her and was the leading scorer going into the half. Murphy recently has been the go-to player the team has relied a lot upon to put points on the board. Murphy ended with a 50% field goal percentage and 14 points.

The shutdown defensive player, Kendyll Kinzer, seemed a bit allergic to scoring but made an appearance on defense rebounding, blocking and stealing. This got her a ton of minutes on the court. Kinzer ended with 10 rebounds, two blocks and two steals.

Finally, CSU’s dead-eye shooter, Upe Atosu, was the lead scorer with 16 points and made two out of five 3-pointers. She looked to be all over the court and right where she needed to be.

After this loss against Boise State, the Colorado State Rams will reflect and come back ready for the Bulldogs at California State University, Fresno on Monday, Jan. 24.

Reach Bryson Schminke at sports@collegian.com or on Twitter @brysons81.